![]() ![]() The message shown throughout this book is very clear because of her well-chosen craft choices. The three girls’ fictional lives were probably very similar to any other girls’ in the New York Shirtwaist strike of 1909, which is what she was going for. From this piece of history, Haddix decided to create three fictional characters with fictional lives living at that time. At a time when large amounts of foreigners were pouring into the United States, looking for a better chance of staying alive, Americans were uncertain about being responsive to the newcomers. There were impressive dissimilarity between the poor and the rich, and there were reformers wanting a change. ![]() She creatively made the first and last chapters present time, making the middle a whole flashback although it was not all in one perspective. Uprising, by Margaret Peterson Haddix, is a deep, well-written historical fiction novel on girls and women in the shirtwaist strike of 1909-10. ![]()
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