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About This Passage
In three quick sentences Anne reveals her secret for surviving sorrow: each new morning resets her hope. Copying her buoyant rhythm and her habit of turning feeling into a rhetorical question lets students study how Montgomery builds Anne's irrepressible voice.
I’m not in the depths of despair this morning. I never can be in the morning. Isn’t it a splendid thing that there are mornings?
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Discussion Questions
Narration Prompt
Reconstruct the chapter's movement: Anne's joyful waking, her rapturous talk with Marilla, the silent breakfast, her refusal to go outdoors, the naming of the geranium, and the drive toward White Sands.
Discussion Questions
- Waking to sunshine and the cherry tree, Anne's grief gives way to such joy that she declares she 'never can be in the depths of despair' in the morning. What does this swift recovery reveal about how Anne survives a hard life, and why might mornings hold such power for her? Use details from the chapter.
- Anne refuses to go outdoors, reasoning that 'there is no use in loving things if you have to be torn from them.' Build the strongest case that Anne's self-protection is wise, then the strongest objection that she is wasting a real joy. Which reading does the chapter make more convincing, and why? Use details from the chapter.
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Vocabulary Builder
Item 1
A memory, especially one that suddenly returns.
Item 2
In a way that takes in everything completely.
Item 3
Acting automatically, without thought or feeling.
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