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In 1800s life in the US was not easy. The lands was big, wild and still mostly untamed. The travel was slow and often wrought with peril as the dangers loomed on the roads, if there were any at all. Most of the Americans, two thirds of them in fact lived near the Atlantic coast and that is within 50 miles of it. Also, west of the Appalachian mounts only one tenth of the Americans lived there.
This excerpt shows how Debs has endured and shared the harsh working conditions of laborers (D.).
Many verbal groups indicate his physical involvement in the working people's daily life and how it affected him emotionally:
- "I had ... been stung by the exposure ... of the rail;"
- "I was with the boys ... at the broken engine's side;"
- "helped to bear;"
- "feel the burden."
As for the harsh working conditions, they are described by the following nouns and adjectives:
- "hardship;"
- "weary;"
- "bruised and bleeding bodies;"
- "burden."
We know that they are laborers and not, for example, business owners, because their work is very manual. Besides, the term "working class" appears in the text, as well as "Proletaire" which is borrowed from French and means "belonging to the lower social classes."
