Uprising, and the Many Symbols in it. Uprising, by Margaret Peterson Haddix, follows the path of three girls, Bella, Yetta, and Jane, during the 1909 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory strike and eventually the fateful fire. To symbolize this, drawings of the signs that the women in the strike used to help what they wanted to be said, said louder. During the strike, the posters were printed with different languages, representing the immigrants from Italy, Germany, Russia, and other European countries. In search for a new life in America, many people came, working endless hours in factories, anything to send money home to their family. This was true for Bella, an Italian immigrant, and Yetta, who came to America with her older sister from Russia fleeing religious prosecution. The rose, spiked with thorns, shows how beauty can grow from rags and the hardships of poverty. Bella, Yetta, and Jane’s friendship grows close and beautiful, surrounded by the stains and tears around them. “Just that one rose carried them the rest of the way through the winter. It made everything else they hoped for seem so much closer.” In a drafty hut, one vibrant rose, a luxury that…show more content… She had never left her town before getting on a ship, packed with other people, on her way to another country. In her old town, she was the wild girl. She never thought twice before speaking or acting. But once she was in New York, with the pressure of her family's survival on her back, heavy as a bag of bricks, she changed. “But since she had left for America, sometimes she felt like she'd left that girl behind just as completely as she'd left Mama and the little ones. This was a new Bella in the New World.” She became a quiet girl, polite, and sensible, willing to do anything for her starving mother, her brothers, her sisters. The Statue of Liberty represented a new opportunity in America for many immigrants. To Bella, it meant a new
