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Answer:
Formalistic criticism examines plot, characterization, dialogue, point of view, setting, and style to show how these elements contribute to the theme or unity of the literary work. The meaning and value of a literary work resides in the text itself, independent of the author's intent.
Explanation:
Lyddie learns to read and write from the other factory girls. she values reading as much anything else with that skills she started to write letters to home.
Explanation:
Lyddie has very little education, she wishes to learn but it was a situation that she could not continue because her father left and mother was not capable of taking care of her younger sisters.
Later Lyddie worked in a factory, there the girls thought her to read and write. She likes Oliver twist written by Charles Dickens about a young orphan living in terrible conditions.
Lyddie uses this book to read and write. She started to write letters to home. Charlie gives Lyddie a letter from Luke Stevens. Luke says about farm and he proposes marriage to her. she gets disgusted by the proposal by thinking that Luke is buying her along with the farm. She tears the letter to bits and bursts.
