n, so these conditions are right in the middle (Dickens, Charles; The Great Expectations). Unlike the children in the poem, The Cry of the Children, where the kids are made to work all day in the factories and mines, without anyone there to help them and protect them against the child labor, Pip doesnt have to work at all, to my knowledge. The children, as Browning describes them, are tired, weak, and sick, with pale faces, and sad eyes. They cry and weep, yet no one hears them and dont want to listen to them at all. Education, in this case, is out of the picture and is not even mentioned anywhere, because they need those children to work for they all day long without any rest. They dont even have any time or energy left to just be kids and play out in the sun on the meadows with the beautiful butterflies and caterpillars (Browning, Elizabeth). In the book, The Mill on the Floss, by George Eliot, Mr. Tulliver wants his boy to get a good education, just like Joe wants Pip to get a good education. Mr. Tulliver wants the best for his kid, but for his daughter, he doesnt care much. Still, their daughter gets the proper things and is taken care of, plus she has time and opportunity to read books and play outside by the water. This environment is better than what Pip has and much, much better than what the children have that have to work in the mines and factories. There is a big contrast in The Old Nurses Story, where one child has all the love in the world, even though both her parents died, and has a nice, big, warm home, with food to eat, and a bed to sleep, and the other child only has a mother who cares about her, while everyone else hates her. Miss Rosamond lives happily and gets everything she needs, while the other girl was thrown out into the cold and freezing night, without any food or anyone to help them (Gaskell, Elizabeth). All these kids were treated differently. Some were treated like royalties, while others were tre...
