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Homework submission week 2
Here’s my character sculpt and the story. I apologize if there are mistakes in the text, writing is not my strength and it’s even more difficult for me in English.
Named as Cuthbert, he is a chimney sweeper apprentice. Usually called as “Bert”, “Hubert” or “Hugh” by his Master Sweep Floyd Griffiths. Sometimes the name turns in to form of just “Lad” or “Boy”. It is not rare to hear the coughs roughed voice through the chimney pipe yelling “Go on, hurry, Cuthbert! Why’d you were given so long name anyways? Enough to think through with your small brain, laddy? C’mon Hugh. You think we got all day to sweep only this one chimney? Do you want something else for supper than just water? Better keep sweeping and sweep fast, or you’ll stay like the little bastard you are for the rest of your short life.” and so on. Even so the master sweep is tough slave driver, Cuthbert is not afraid of the man and secretly calls him with names when he’s not hearing or around.
The young chimney sweeper kid Cuthbert, well not so young anymore as being the age of twelve, is very brave boy. He doesn’t mind the crap he has to take every day. After orphaned at the age of eight and living in the streets barely a month, Floyd found him and took the boy along. It is usual that the Master Sweeps hire homeless kids, even after The Chimney Sweepers Act in 1875 changed the job description of apprentices. Using the climbing boys was not only illegal in England, but also followed by the authorities. So after not being forced to climp trough the pipe, Cuthbert carries tools around and sweeps chimneys with the long sweeping tool. He keeps thinking positively: imagines that one day he will have a life of his own, a life with a real job. A job that maybe isn’t even sweeping the chimneys. Some times, or maybe too often we could say, when standing on the rooftop, he stops to stare in to horizon and falls daydreaming of something better. He is certain that with hard work and right amount of willpower, a better life will be achievable. Many times in situations like that if he gets caught of slacking, the Master Sweep gives some beating and makes him work even harder. Life is cruel but Cuthbert deals with it. He sleeps on the floor of his masters apartment, and at the next morning once again he runs trough the London streets and loyally sells their work by yelling “Chimney sweeps! For cheap!”