![]() ![]() ![]() Caught in the act, he learns that the forbidding man is really a compassionate soul who gives him the chance he needs to make a new life for himself. Gerbati's stonecutting business where, despite fair treatment, the temptation to steal overwhelms him. Illiterate "Sal" begs off going to school, working instead in Mr. He convinces Rosa to say he is her older brother and to persuade the Gerbatis to keep him, too. After a terrifying incident in which he finds his father dead, Jake sneaks onto the train, mistaking its destination as New York City. As the strike turns ugly, arrangements are made for children to leave Lawrence temporarily, and Rosa is sent to an elderly couple, the Gerbatis, in Barre. Jake Beale works there to keep himself and his alcoholic father alive. Rosa Serutti's mother and older sister work in the mills and are joining the protest against unfair labor practices. Paterson has drawn upon the facts of the famous 1912 Bread and Roses strike in the mills of Lawrence, MA, and the sympathetic response of the citizens of Barre, VT, to tell the story of two children enmeshed in complex events. ![]()
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