Industrial Revolution Monologue

Hey, I’m Tommie, I would tell you how old I am but I can’t remember.
Now this Industrial revolution ain’t as great as they say. All us kids have become more popular for labour. Collieries, mills, factories. We do it all. I myself work in a colliery. Ever since the demand for coal has increased, the demand for children has also risen. In the colliery I work as a trapper, I have since I was six. I sit there in the darkness, for 12 hours a day, for 2 pennies a day. Me, me mother and father, George, live in a small town very near the mine. Most of us workers live round the mine, it’s easier that way. Many industries have also popped up round the mine.
Now, I don’t know much but I’ll tell you what I do know. The amount of wood that we used for
When the collieries started become’in more popular he moved into the town we live in now and started work’in in the colliery. My father told me that his farm’in life was much different to this industrial town. He only ate the food they got from the land and If they hadn’t got much, they didn’t eat much. Only once or twice they had access to imported goods.
I live with my father, mother and two other families. We are all crammed into two rooms, I either doss on the floor or on a blanket, if I’m lucky. Because of us being so close together diseases and sickness are easy to catch and spread. One of the other families we live with had an older lady with them, but she died by tuberculosis. Tuberculosis is the most common killer in the slums. The poor lass was coughing and spluttering; spitting out yellow stuff before she passed. My family only get one meal a day and barely enough drink. We don’t wash very often. The water is scarce and when we do get it, tis’ very dirty and often infected. Water is where most of the diseases come from and travel round easier.
My father used to tell stories, when he be in a good mood, about what would have happened if those collieries and machines had not sprung up. He would start with “Tommie, if I hadn’t come here you could be living on a farm with your mother and
All the factories are causing to much smoke and smog. You could have grown up with a much healthier life” and then for the only time I can remember he looked at me much more gently, there actually seemed to be love in his eyes. He sometimes told other stories of his own child life, but not very often. Now days he just goes straight to sleep, like all of us really. He can’t cope as well as he once did with the amount of work he does in the colliery.
I myself didn’t leave much of a legacy but trappers and collieries as a whole have shaped the way that people live, work and experience today. Collieries provided the coal needed to power homes, machines and light’in all over Britain. Without the power, we wouldn’t have survived. Coal was needed for new inventions and these inventions have been modified again and again to become the everyday materials we use today.
For example, the steam engine. The steam engine needed coal to work. Without coal the steam engine wouldn’t have powered steam trains, which have now become faster, energy efficient trains all over the world. The steam engine also helped the mass production in the industrial revolution. The mass production of food, cloth’in and materials assisted in speed’in up the industrial revolution. Coal also helped boost the economy for Britain. The machines created more wealth by simply making so much money from the machines and products. This economy boost has carried on round the world