Project Gutenberg 2003-12-01 Public domain in the USA. 53 Greene, Homer 1853 1940 Burnham Breaker Reading ease score: 80.4 (6th grade). Easy to read. E-text prepared by Charles Aldarondo, Keren Vergon, William Flis, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team. Special thanks to Mike Greene and the Little Greene Schoolhouse (http://www.users.nac.net/mgreene/Homer_Greene_Museum.html) for supplying missing pages for this rare book "Burnham Breaker" by Homer Greene is a novel written in the late 19th century. The story unfolds in the backdrop of Scranton, Pennsylvania, a city entrenched in the coal-mining industry, and follows the lives of young boys toiling under harsh conditions, particularly highlighting the character of Ralph. Ralph, who yearns for a sense of belonging and searches for his identity, becomes entwined with Robert Burnham, the compassionate manager, whose kindness touches the lives of those working under him. The opening of "Burnham Breaker" sets up a vivid portrayal of the coal breaker where boys work long hours, picking slate from coal, while dreaming of freedom and a better life outside their prison-like environment. On a significant day, which happens to be circus day, the screen-room boys find their mundane toil interrupted when Burnham rewards their loyalty by granting them time off to visit the circus. This gesture highlights Burnham's compassion and foreshadows the deeper connections that will unravel between him and Ralph, especially as Ralph's past comes to light, revealing his lack of identity and longing for family. The narrative begins to weave themes of identity, loss, and the struggles of the working class in an industrial society. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Boys -- Juvenile fiction Foundlings -- Juvenile fiction Coal mines and mining -- Juvenile fiction Scranton (Pa.) -- Juvenile fiction PZ Text Browsing: Children & Young Adult Reading Browsing: Fiction 662036 661678 2024-10-05T04:59:25.497923 2023-10-05T05:47:03.946500 text/html text/html 662029 661671 2024-10-05T04:59:25.832957 2023-10-05T05:47:04.184513 text/html text/html 300340 2024-10-05T04:59:35.620943 application/epub+zip 310134 2024-10-05T04:59:27.981902 application/epub+zip 310134 2024-10-05T04:59:26.679969 application/epub+zip 557120 2024-10-05T04:59:41.394924 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 515757 2024-10-05T04:59:34.626925 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 490364 2022-09-05T08:04:18.330195 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 590800 590517 2024-10-05T04:59:24.933940 2023-10-05T05:47:03.520529 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 591832 2020-12-19T21:47:14 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 218923 2020-12-19T21:47:14 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 19524 2024-10-05T04:59:41.522887 application/rdf+xml 13625 2024-10-05T04:59:27.223883 image/jpeg 3468 2024-10-05T04:59:26.949906 image/jpeg 296182 2024-10-05T04:59:25.887012 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog