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Aunt March has forbidden the match and threatened to give Meg no money. The narrator explains why that command produces the opposite response.
If Aunt March had begged Meg to accept John Brooke, she would probably have declared she couldn’t think of it; but as she was peremptorily ordered not to like him, she immediately made up her mind tha...
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Narration Prompt
Write a narration tracing Meg from her planned refusal through Aunt March's warning to her answer to John, then include Jo's response.
Discussion Questions
- Meg believes a prepared refusal will keep her calm, but the real proposal unsettles her. What does the failed speech reveal about knowing your own mind?
- John offers to wait, but his confident smile nettles Meg and his sadness softens her. What makes his persuasion appealing or troubling in this scene?
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Vocabulary
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Able to make someone more willing to agree, as John's carefully chosen tone tries to do
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Driven by a sudden changeable impulse, as Meg's sharp refusal is
Item 3
A stubborn urge to resist what one is ordered to do, as Meg resists Aunt March
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