Characterize the boy who speaks in this poem. How do his and the poet's attitudes toward his lot in life differ? How, especially, are the meanings of the poet and the speaker different in lines 3, 7-8, and 24?
The boy in this poem is kind of the kid that just wants things to be over with. Because he is very optimistic and always looking for the bright side in things. For example, when Tom was getting all his hair shaved off Tom did not like it and the speaker just said that without his hair the soot from the chimney would not spoil his white hair. The poet sees the story as a horrible thing because it is not right for little kids to be sold and they have to lead terrible lives of cleaning chimneys out. It just sucks. The speaker in the poem just goes with the flow of things. He tries to always stay positive and he knows that his and his friend's lives are crap but they just have to deal with it.
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