Book Blog #2 Foundling

Rossamund now has to set off on his journey in order to get to his new job as a lamplighter he has to travel on the hogshead a large vassal for the emperor. A challenge that the boy faces this time around is that he has to make the journey alone when mister Sebastipole, the man who recruited, him has other jobs to do. It is a significant event because all of Rossamund's life he has been sheltered and now he has to travel a long distance all by his lonesome to get to a job he does not even want but is forced to take. His experience is much like that of a person who is forced from their home and given a place far off to stay. A hard experience like this may as well be a very important path to his future life and not just a physical path but an emotional path that will ready him for many hardships he will probably encounter in his life time. Sebastipole says to Rossamund "I have other tasks to attend to here in Boschenburg. You will see me again some day not too distant, I’m sure. Just head down the stair and along five berths. A lamplighter's life is independence of thought and deed my boy. You will need to get used to this as soon as possible. Welcome to the lamplighters!" (D.M. Cornish 58) this was the only introduction to the world he was about to enter, I myself would be uncertain and maybe unable to continue on in such a hard manor, showing how strong of a character Rossamund is.