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Montgomery closes the chapter on a quiet, devastating parallel: the two settled adults go calmly to bed while a 'lonely, heart-hungry, friendless child' cries herself to sleep. The repeated 'And' rhythm and the piled triad of adjectives reward students studying cadence, parallelism, and how a final image can quietly indict everything before it.
To bed went Matthew. And to bed, when she had put her dishes away, went Marilla, frowning most resolutely. And upstairs, in the east gable, a lonely, heart-hungry, friendless child cried herself to sl...
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Narration Prompt
Reconstruct the chapter's movement: Marilla's shock at the girl, Anne's collapse into despair, the negotiation over her name, the silent supper, and the night-time argument over whether she may stay.
Discussion Questions
- Within minutes Anne sinks into despair over being unwanted, yet still pleads to be called the elegant 'Cordelia.' How do you understand a child who can despair and dream in the same breath, and why might both reactions spring from the same source? Use details from the chapter.
- Matthew's plea that 'we might be some good to her' quietly reframes the question Marilla keeps asking, 'what good would she be to us.' Construct the strongest objection to Marilla's usefulness standard, then weigh whether Matthew's reframing is genuinely wiser or merely softer-hearted, and why. Use details from the chapter.
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Vocabulary Builder
Item 1
A settled preference or liking for something.
Item 2
The state of no longer being used.
Item 3
A gap or break; an awkward opening someone must fill.
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