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- Chapter One: In Silver Country
- Chapter Two: The Thimblerigger
- Chapter Three: Family Reunion
- Chapter Four: Anna Tells Her Story
- Chapter Five: Sold to the Cigarmaker
- Chapter Six: Anna Escapes
- Chapter Seven: On the Orphan Train
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About Me
- Mike Peterson
- Mike Peterson is the author of "Tommy and the Guttersnipe" and other serialized newspaper stories. He is also a newspaper editor and has been a reporter and columnist, as well as a magazine writer, radio talkshow host and advertising copywriter.
What’s up mike I was wondering? In this chapter Anna was saying that they had a piece of bread and coffee in the morning before work. They never mentioned lunch but, they mentioned supper. They had bread or cabbage soup and something else. What was that something else
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How did you choose for Anna’s dad to work at the “farmers co-op”?
ReplyDeleteWhy did you pick a cigar maker for that chapter and why are you interested in that part of time.
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Cassandra G. LACS
ReplyDeleteHi I love story so far. Why did you have Anna lie to her father?
Okay, lots of questions: Check that conjunction again, Tristan -- it was cabbage soup OR something else. I'm not sure what, but you can guess it wasn't a feast. And, no, they didn't have lunch. I had Mr. LaRocque work at the feed store because I figured that would be where a farmer would be able to get a job in town. And that was a real place, too. The people are fictional but both dads work at real places that were in Denver back then. I chose a cigarmaker because there was a lot of information about cigarmaking in the tenements. It wasn't the worst job, it wasn't the best, but it got a lot of publicity -- Google the name "Samuel Gompers" to find out why! And, Anna, read again -- she didn't lie to her father. But here's something for your class to talk about -- in the last chapter, Jake asked Tommy not to tell their mother about Anna, and now Anna doesn't want to tell her father about Jake being her brother yet. Why do you think Jake and Anna want to wait to tell their new parents about finding each other?
ReplyDeleteHi, it's Matilde. I read the fifth chapter, and to think of having a life like Anna's would be terrible. The description of how they live is miserable. I realy would like to know why would you like to make a story in the past-tense. I'm not saying it's not intresting, but why that time period? I like how you made it so Anna didn't lie to her father, but still didn't admit Jake and her were brother and sister. I dernitly can't wate for the next chapter! Matilde H.M.
ReplyDeleteWell, Mathilde, I was writing a new story about Tommy and Jake, so I had to write it in that time period. If I wrote about them in today's world, Jake would be about 120 years old, and Tommy'd be a few years older!!!
ReplyDeleteThat is disgusting how kids were treated. No lunch and no real place to live. No sunlight or anything.
ReplyDeleteDerek T. LACS
JOHN TRENCA WERE IS ANNA'S FATHER KNOW BECAUSE IT DOESN'T SAY IT IN THE STORY
ReplyDeleteI don't know where he is, John. Sometimes people who don't behave very well and who don't take care of themselves land in some pretty sad places. I guess that's probably what happened to him.
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