A Fortunate Life
In this assignment I have to compare my life to the life of Albert in the book "A Fortunate Life."
This book was set about a hunderd years ago. The boy,Albert is about 10 to 11 years old and is living with his Grandmother and uncle on a farm which they bought. When I was 10 I attended grade 5 at St.Ignatius at norwood and i was living in a house with my Mum and Dad, my Grandmother lives next door. Albert worked on on his uncles farm for a while and then he went to a farm to work for I think 5 Schillings a month. At that time i think that was a resionable wage for a 10 year old boy but he dident see a cent of the earnings at that farm which he worked on for a year or so.
I dident work when I was 10, I was at school with my friends enjoying life. I dident have a worry in the world apart from home work. I would like to go back to those days. Albert tryed to leave the farm but he coulden't, the owner would threatten him if he'd leave he would regret it if he......
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