Question

Write the analysis of the story An Angel in Disguise written by T S Arthur......
Word limit 150 to 200 words

Answer 1

An unnamed pauper woman dies from excessive alcohol use. A pauper is a poor person, though not necessarily a beggar or a charity case. She was something of the town pariah: ''This woman had been despised, scoffed at, and angrily denounced by nearly every man, woman, and child in the village; but now, as the fact of her death was passed from lip to lip, in subdued tones, pity took the place of anger, and sorrow of denunciation.'' Following her sudden death, the villagers take pity on her and the three orphan children she has left behind. The villagers take up a collection and put together a modest funeral.
As for the children, 12-year-old John is old enough to work. Farmer Jones adopts the boy because he will be of good use in fieldwork. Mrs. Ellis begrudgingly adopts Kate, who is still a few years too young to go to work in a factory. Mrs. Ellis complains about the responsibility involved in taking on an undisciplined orphan.
But no one says ''I'll take Maggie.'' Maggie, the third and youngest child, suffered an injury to her back as a child, and as a result she's bedridden. Nobody knows what to do about Maggie. Lacking a better option, some villagers assume she will have to be taken to the poorhouse. Today, the word can sometimes be heard thrown around figuratively, but in the 19th century, the poorhouse was a very real place, a government-funded facility where paupers lived and worked. They were sometimes also called ''almshouses'', especially when funded by a church or other charitable fund.