The policeman doesn’t care. Fay cares, because she takes her to the hospital when Annie is hurt. The writer
2.
2 persons. Annie and Kid.
3.
Annie’s father dies and he was a shoemaker and took care of her. He means a lot to Annie. Kid has a bad influence on Annie’s life.
4.
If she carries on living her life the way she does, it will maybe kill her.
5.
Kid’s parents were good Christians who were communicants at the parish church, and the whole family tried hard to keep Kid out of criminal activities.
Annie’s father was a shoemaker, but he died when she was 6 years old. Annie and her mother then moved to the Lower East Side, because they couldn’t afford anything else.
6.
Because of their father’s death the families had no money and it affected their way of living. They had to live an underdog life.
8.
The environment was terrible for kids and it gave them no chance of going to school. Because of the poor conditions in the environment, they had to live their life in the best possible way.
9.
The Lower East Side was a district in which there were a lot of social problems like prostitution, criminal gangs, drunkenness, drugs etc.
Questions to” Katie and Leah”
1. D
2. Katie has the American lifestyle, accepts to live side by side with the Christians
Leah has hold on in the traditional lifestyle. Leah wears a wig. A wig = a Jewish tradition for married women.
