Response Christopher Turner's "The Tokens"

 The Tokens is an extremely melancholy tale of the orphaned children in the late 1700’s.  The story is surprising because of the amount of hard shipped faced at infancy. Their mothers did not only leave these children, but they had no guarantees with the hospital. Many who did attain refuge didn’t even survive. Being placed in such a peculiar and heart-wrenching situation can surely shine light on the value of little things. These children mostly likely grew to have endless questions for each of the objects they were placed with and inevitably began to thoroughly identify themselves with it. Although this story is rather depressing it does make one realize the capacity of sentimental value even the tiniest of objects can have. Objects can have the power to symbolize the most significant parts of a human being and in the case of The Tokens, one’s life.