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This is the chapter's quiet turning point: pity breaks through Marilla's reserve as she reads 'between the lines' of Anne's story. Copying it lets students study how an em-dash and semicolon pile up the bleak nouns (drudgery, poverty, neglect) and how 'divine the truth' marks Marilla's shrewd, dawning insight.
Pity was suddenly stirring in her heart for the child. What a starved, unloved life she had had—a life of drudgery and poverty and neglect; for Marilla was shrewd enough to read between the lines of A...
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Discussion Questions
Narration Prompt
Reconstruct the chapter's movement: Anne's decision to enjoy the drive, the story of her parents and the homes she passed through, Marilla's dawning pity, and the ride along the Shore Road.
Discussion Questions
- How does Anne on this drive compare with the talkative girl Matthew first met on the drive home from Bright River? What stays the same in the way she uses imagination, and why does this chapter help us see more clearly why she needs it? Use details from the chapter.
- Anne comforts herself by calling her life 'a perfect grave-yard of buried hopes,' a phrase she likes because it 'sounds so nice and romantic.' What does Anne's way of dressing sorrow in romantic language reveal about how she copes, and why might it work for her? Use details from the chapter.
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Vocabulary Builder
Item 1
Without mercy or softening; bluntly.
Item 2
So lovely it charms or enchants you.
Item 3
Absent-mindedly, with the mind elsewhere.
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