In chapter thirteen of Lyddie, the factory really starts to increase the speed of the machines that Lyddie works. The effect on Lyddie comes in three stages.
At first, Lyddie is more than capable of handling the speed increase.
No matter how fast the machines speeded up, Lyddie was somehow able to keep pace.
The paragraph goes on to explain that Lyddie was functioning as if she were a part of the machine....
In chapter thirteen of Lyddie, the factory really starts to increase the speed of the machines that Lyddie works. The effect on Lyddie comes in three stages.
At first, Lyddie is more than capable of handling the speed increase.
No matter how fast the machines speeded up, Lyddie was somehow able to keep pace.
The paragraph goes on to explain that Lyddie was functioning as if she were a part of the machine. She and the machine are working in such perfect harmony that no matter how much its speed is increased, she keeps right in step.
As the high speeds continue, Lyddie begins to feel the negative effects. The days are long, the conditions are bad, and the work is physically demanding. Lyddie's body simply does not have enough time to recover between shifts. She operates in a state of complete exhaustion.
She was too tired now at night to copy out a page of Oliver to paste to her loom.
The final effect of the speed up on Lyddie is injury. She is simply too tired to correctly focus on the dangerous machines that she is operating. The consequence is that she takes a shuttle to the head and gets knocked out.
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