Bourvier describes her plight as an impoverished child and industrial worker, highlighting the hardships and social injustices of lower-class life.
- The author works in a textile factory, working 13-hour shifts (technically illegal for a child) and earning 3 francs every week
- Her family is extremely poor, with her father out of work and her furniture confiscated by the sheriff after the family failed to pay rent
- She becomes so depressed from her condition that she contemplates suicide at age 12
- On one occasion, she had to endure two days without food or sleep during a snowstorm
- She is always told by her employer that she will be given a raise the next week, but she never receives one because the foreman takes it all for himself
“While poor little unfortunates like myself endured poverty and received beatings, he kept the money”
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