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in the eighteenth century was not a good place for anyone especially young children. Children doing this time had to work as slaves. They had to work as chimney sweepers. They had to do a job that no one wanted to do. The children were forced to live in work houses, because their parents could not afford to feed them. So to keep the children from starving to death, parents would sell their children to people who could feed them. Research concludes the same point. "Of every 1,000 children born in early 18th century , almost half died before the age of 2. Malnutrition, maternal ignorance, bad water, dirty food, poor hygiene and overcrowding all contributed to this extremely high mortality rate. And if an infant did survive, it then faced the perils of childhood namely malnourishment and ongoing abuse. Many poor children were dispatched to crowded, back breaking workhouses or were apprenticed to tradesmen who used them as unpaid laborers" (Black leaf 1).



Also the living conditions were terrible. Families would drink dirty water, and would leave their trash everywhere. The research that I did supports my opinion. " was filled with the smell of wet horses and the waste materials associated with them. Sanitation was unheard of. Water was unpurified, and raw sewage ran down city streets in open drains. It was common practice for people to empty their chamber pots out of their windows, and to leave garbage out in the street to rot" (Black leaf 1).



In the first stanza of the poem, the unnamed narrator tells us that his mother died and his father sold him at a very young age. He also tells us about the job and where he sleeps. The narrator is basically introducing himself to the reader. The most important line in first stanza is when the narrator says "So your chimneys I sweep and in soot I sleep". I believe that he is talking to educated people in during the 18th century, the reader basically he is speaking to anyone who is reading the poem. The narrator thinks that anyone one who can read are richer than people who can not read and do not have an education. During those times education people were the rich people.



The second stanza is when Tom is introduced. Tom cries when his owner shaved his curly hair. The owner shaved Tom head because when Tom is climbing up the chimney his hair get greases because of the soot. The narrator cares for Tom and tries to tell Tom that he will be okay. The narrator is like a friend to Tom.



Stanzas three, four, and five are about Tom dream. In Tom dream he sees thousands of other young children dying from the job. The angel unlocks the coffins and the children are already dead. They probably died from the smoke or even starvation. The children were happy because they finally get to be normally kids. They get to swim in the river, and play. Tom was having a good dream. The angel gives Tom a lesson. The lesson was if he is good and does his duty as a chimney sweeper then his dream would come true.



In the last stanza, Tom wakes up happy. He is happy because of the dream. He figures if he stays good, and does his duty or job then his dream will come true. Tom wants to live the dream, so he does his work as a chimney sweeper. The angel is real life are the priests of the Catholic Church. They are tricking the kids into doing the labor. The irony of the poem is that we know what their life is going to be, but he does not yet know. They are still children. Tom





believes the angel but the problem is that the angel is not telling the truth. The angel just wanted them to do the labor. The priests of the Catholic Church are the angel in real life. Back in those days, priests were rich and their houses had a chimney and they needed the chimney clean. The priest told him that to make him fell happy doing that kind of labor.



Some of the complains about the bad situations in at this time is very simple. One is when the narrator says “My father sold me" He does not like that his father sold him. Another bad situation is when the narrator says, "So your chimneys I sweep, and in soot I sleep" This is a complain because he is sleeping in dirty. Why would anyone want to sleep in dirty especially a young kid? Another is "Were all of them locked up in coffins of black" This complains is about young children in a coffin. Who would wants to see their young child dead in a coffin. Who would want to imagine a young child in a coffin? I do not think that anyone would want to see their young child in a coffin.