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About This Passage
Opal is looking around the kitchen at all her new friends, and Winn-Dixie is safe, and her father is happy too. She calls her feeling 'pure happiness' — meaning happiness with nothing else mixed in. Notice the word 'swell' again. Opal used it earlier in the book to talk about feeling both joy and sadness at once. This time, her heart is swelling with ONLY happiness. Copying this sentence teaches children how a word can come back later in a story with a new meaning.
I felt my heart swell up inside me with pure happiness.
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Narration Prompt
Tell the story of finding Winn-Dixie. Where was he hiding? What was he doing when Otis played his guitar?
Discussion Questions
- Winn-Dixie was hiding under Gloria's bed the whole time Opal was searching in the rain. He was scared but safe. Why did Winn-Dixie hide under the bed instead of running away?
- The chapter shows the party continuing inside even though the rain ruined the yard. The decorations are gone, but the party is going on. What is the chapter saying about what parties are really made of?
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