The article is about a hardworking man and his struggles trying to keep his family, including his brothers, afloat and the purpose of him striking. In the chronicle, I was immediately drawn to the imagery of the dark coalmines. He makes the mines sound very hellish as they must have been by describing the mines as "chambers." He also uses dark colors when describing the mines. I cannot really imagine the mines being any other color, which adds to the images.

When describing his job, the author states, "We grow old quickly." One insight of growing old quickly that he mentions a couple of times is the

In conclusion, after reading this excerpt, I realized that the workers not only striked for the terrible working conditions, but over the unreal wages that they were getting paid. I always thought that the workers were upset over the deadly working conditions, but got paid decent wages, but now I realize the true struggle of the coal miner during this time period.

"miners asthma." This is caused by the coal dust being built up in the lungs from all the time spent in the coalmines. When he talks about getting miners asthma, he doesn't sound like it is a bad thing, but something that happens to everyone. The person that wrote this essay lived in the coal-mining region all his life. He sees people all around him develop this condition and probably expects the same for himself.

Later in the paper, he describes how he keeps his brother and nurses him until he is well again. He says that the reason he didn't send him to the hospital was because "We are American citizens and we don't go to h

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Approximate Word count = 670
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)