Everyday lives for the children

There is no doubt that the everyday lives of these children were very difficult. From dusk till dawn these kids worked their buts off. They usually spent most of their day working in the factories, mills, mines, or farms. When they got home they were greeted with less than exciting circumstances. Most of these children lived in poor conditions; their homes were dirty, they had no source of ventilation, and they usually lived with 12 other people in a extremely small room.As you can imagine these homes had to heat nor windows, therefore on hot summer days the heat would be unbearable and on cold lonely nights it would be chilling cold. To give me an idea of how these children lived i skimmed the book “how the other half lives” by Jacob Riis. I can the pictures that i saw in the book and the little bit that i read saddened me. Just to know that these children woke up and couldn't even take a shower on most days and then went to slave it in a job to come back home to miserable conditions gave me a feel of melancholy . These following pictures show the disgusting neighborhoods and homes these kids lived in: