The Hired Girl Kindle Edition
Author: Visit ‘s Laura Amy Schlitz Page ID: B015CLIX50
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File Size: 6553 KBPrint Length: 400 pagesPublisher: Walker (September 17, 2015)Publication Date: September 17, 2015Language: EnglishID: B015CLIX50Text-to-Speech: Enabled X-Ray: Not Enabled Word Wise: EnabledLending: Not Enabled Enhanced Typesetting: Enabled Best Sellers Rank: #569,825 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store) #207 in Books > Teens > Historical Fiction > United States > 20th Century #234 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Teen & Young Adult > Historical Fiction > United States #253 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Children’s eBooks > Literature & Fiction > Historical Fiction > United States > 1900s
“The Hired Girl” is a book filled with interesting themes: feminism, religion, class distinctions, romance, and family. While reading, I often was prompted to think about one of those topics in a different way, while the characters were interesting enough to keep me invested. Unfortunately, the end result is that all those themes get muddled together amongst each other and the novel isn’t nearly as clear in concept at the end as it is in the beginning.
For a basic plot summary, “The Hired Girl” tells the story of 14-year old Joan Skraggs. Living on a poor Pennsylvania farm, her father is a crude workman who has no respect for her or pretty much all of womankind. With Joan’s mother deceased (“worked to death by Pa”, explains Joan), he is able to rule the roost with an iron fist. All Joan wants to do is get away from farm life to become a teacher, and when Pa pulls her out of classes and insults the schoolmarm in the process, she decides to run away. She ends up as a “hired girl” (servant/worker) for a well-to-do Jewish family in Baltimore, where she begins to question her religious (Catholic) upbringing, her social status, and her blossoming (and of course forbidden) relationship with a young man within the household she serves.
Author Laura Amy Schlitz does a marvelous job of making Joan a sympathetic character right from the get-go. Her Pa is a truly terrible person that creates a sort of purgatory for the hard-working, yet creative/inquisitive child. While she plots to run away, readers will be completely swept up in her quest. Even when Joan finds her new occupation in Baltimore, she still manages to be an interesting figure as she meets all of the diverse characters within the household and integrates into the daily comings-and-goings.
Laura Amy Schlitz’ new book, The Hired Girl, once again is a different story and voice than her previous work. She seems able to reinvent herself, with each new book adopting categorically different elements. Readers expecting the magic or fantastical elements present in some earlier works will not find them here. What they will find instead is a gratifying mix of romantic fantasies, earnest questions about faith and religious truth, and the development of a young, determined personality to create her future, assisted by help and love from unexpected sources.
Schlitz creates a wholly human character in Joan Skrags, a 14 year old girl in 1911 thirsting for the learning, culture and knowledge to which she had only brief exposure through her mother and an insightful teacher, but which is cut short by her harsh and intimidating father after her mother’s untimely death. As a “big, ugly ox of a girl”, she is condemned to a life of drudgery on a hard scrabble farm, unappreciated by her father and 3 brothers. It is a telling sign about Joan that it is the burning of her 3 romantic novels, Jane Eyre, Ivanhoe and Dombey and Son that give Joan the resolve to flee her family and seek a new life.
Joan ends up in Baltimore at night, lost with no place to stay after fleeing a man who tried to take liberties with her. By lucky chance she is taken in by the Rosenbachs, a prosperous Jewish family, and the real story of Joan’s education and personal growth begins.
This is a delightful story, narrated by Joan through her diary in which she can put down her most intimate thoughts, confusions, and fantasies. To gain work as a hired girl in the Rosenbach household, Joan pretends to be 18, forcing her to behave as she imagines an 18 year old would.
Told through diary entries, Laura Amy Schlitz provides young readers with an engaging, historically accurate view of the life of a young girl in her newest book, “The Hired Girl”.
When 14 year-old Joan’s mother dies, her stark life on a meager Pennsylvania farm becomes even more inhospitable. Although she’s a promising student, her father insists she quit school and work on the farm. While her brothers earn a small amount of money for their contributions to the farm operations, Joan’s father denies her any income. When Joan’s former teacher visits and brings books for her to borrow, Joan’s father orders the teacher off the property and forbids her from visiting again. When he burns the three books Joan owns (including her favorite, Jane Eyre) Joan decides to leave home and look for work as a hired girl in a city far from the family farm.
Joan pretends she is 18 and is immediately hired by a well-to-do Jewish family in Baltimore. Here her naivete is on display in full force. While she’s no stranger to hard work, she has many lessons to learn about religion, tolerance, love, the servant/employer relationship and more.
I enjoyed “The Hired Girl”. Joan is an utterly believable 14 year old (whether it’s 1911 or 2015 somethings are constant – one day is “the best day ever”, the next day “the worst”, and the following day “so good, I wish it would never end”). The text incorporates fantastic vocabulary words – I was happy to be reading on my e-reader so that I could easily look them up! This is partially due to the era and partially due to Joan’s character, who loved classic literature and tried to incorporate the words she read into her diary entries.
There’s much for today’s tweens/early teens to learn from reading “The Hired Girl”.
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