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About This Passage
Sent on an errand, Anne is instead found rapt before a picture, and Montgomery captures her in a single flowing sentence. Copying it lets students study how three parallel phrases ('her hands clasped... her face uplifted... her eyes astar with dreams') build a vivid portrait, and how the coined image 'astar with dreams' turns a girl's stillness into something luminous.
She found Anne standing motionless before a picture hanging on the wall between the two windows, with her hands clasped behind her, her face uplifted, and her eyes astar with dreams.
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Discussion Questions
Narration Prompt
Reconstruct the chapter's movement: Marilla watching Anne work, the news that she may stay, the wish to be 'Aunt Marilla,' the picture and the prayer card, Anne's longing for a bosom friend, and her daydreams alone in the east gable.
Discussion Questions
- When Marilla tells Anne she may stay, Anne weeps and says 'glad doesn't seem the right word at all,' that it is 'something more than glad.' What does Anne's struggle to find a word for her own feeling reveal about what this moment means to her, and why? Use details from the chapter.
- Marilla declares she never imagines things different from what they really are, and Anne answers, 'how much you miss!' What does that exchange suggest each of them believes about how a person should meet the world, and why? Use details from the chapter.
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Vocabulary Builder
Item 1
A fault or weakness in someone's character.
Item 2
A sharp scolding for a fault.
Item 3
A state of confusion or puzzlement.
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