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About This Passage
These two short sentences are the book's last big feeling. Opal is telling her mother (who is not there) that her heart does not feel like there is a hole in it anymore. In Chapter 19, Opal said missing her mother felt like a hole where a tooth should be. Now, four chapters later, the hole is filled — not because her mother came back but because Opal has grown. Copying these sentences shows children that a sad feeling can slowly become a full one over time.
My heart doesn't feel empty anymore. It's full all the way up.
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Discussion Questions
Narration Prompt
Tell the ending of the book. Opal talks to her mother at the bottle tree, and then Dunlap comes out to get her. How do you feel about the way the story ends?
Discussion Questions
- Opal tells her mother she will 'still think about you, I promise, but probably not as much as I did this summer.' What has changed that makes her think about her mother less?
- Dunlap helps Opal up and she takes his hand. At the very start of the book she called him 'baldheaded baby.' How did Opal get from hating him to taking his hand?
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