WHERE WOULD YOU RATHER LIVE IN 1908??
CALIFORNIA 1908
Ok, so as the last post ended, Angel woke up in a little house somewhere in the country after being rescued by a mysterious man when she was unconscious. She was being abused because she did not "fulfill" her duties to a man. (In case you don't remember, she was sold into prostitution at a young age.) When the chapter ended she had just woken up and found herself in a quaint country cottage instead of her busy city tenant that she usually shares with 12 other girls. As she looked around the cottage, she sees a man, and he tells her that he must marry her! He gives her old baggy "farmers wives" clothes and many bonnets. Defiantly a huge change from the silk and cashmere she was used to. He also says that when she gets better he has a list of chores she can start to do around the farm. Angel is shocked and does not even know who this crazy man is!!! One night, she lays in bed awake and wonders if she should go back home or stay and live the rest of her life on the farm. This LINK tells about the different types of people in California in 1908.http://www.parks.ca.gov/default.asp?page_id=1094
WHAT WOULD YOU DO? Stay and live the rest of your life on the farm as a "farmers wife", or flee back home to the city and live in fear of being found and sold into prostitution again??
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