Uprising

Uprising is a historical fiction book about 3 girls who get involved in the Triangle Shirtwaist factory strike. Jane is a wealthy girl who understands the workers frusturation. Bella is an italian immigrant who starts as a scab and then gets involved with the strike. Yetta is a jewish immigrant who's olders sister is one of the organizers of the strike and she is very involved in it herself. The book starts off telling three different stories but slowly they all come together and all the girls lives fit into one story, of them becoming sisters and best friends. I really liked how well the author transitioned from the three stories to one because it really made sense rather than they just saw each other on the street and moved in together. The character developement is really good and the characters become very complicated each with their own hopes and dreams but supporting one and other as they slowly become a family. The book also taught alot about the strike because you saw from the point of view of a striker, a scab, and an outsider. About halfway throught the book the strike ends and you see the results of the strike very clearly. The end of the book was very disturbing. The characters are so realistic and complicated that they feel like real people when you are reading this book but the book ends with the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, in which two of the girls die. It was a disturbing end to a fantastic book.