The Road to Character Setting & Symbolism

David Brooks
This Study Guide consists of approximately 50 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of The Road to Character.
Related Topics

The Road to Character Setting & Symbolism

David Brooks
This Study Guide consists of approximately 50 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of The Road to Character.
This section contains 1,518 words
(approx. 4 pages at 400 words per page)
Buy The Road to Character Study Guide

Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire was a fatal conflagration that took place in New York City at the beginning of the 20th century. It serves as a symbol of injustice, both in Brooks’s writing and in American history. In 1909, one young immigrant working in a nearby factory started a strike protesting these unsafe working conditions. The company cracked down on them, and the rest of the city ignored them. No changes were made. When the fire began on a high floor, some attempts at stopping the fire were made, but they were largely unsuccessful. The factory manager, for example, tried to battle the fire by dumping buckets of water onto the cloth. Historians have since pointed out that if he focused on evacuating the workers rather than trying to save the building, perhaps no lives would have been lost that day. Firefighters arrived...

(read more)

This section contains 1,518 words
(approx. 4 pages at 400 words per page)
Buy The Road to Character Study Guide
Copyrights
BookRags
The Road to Character from BookRags. (c)2024 BookRags, Inc. All rights reserved.