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Marmee has admitted that she still struggles with anger after forty years of practice.
The patience and the humility of the face she loved so well was a better lesson to Jo than the wisest lecture, the sharpest reproof. She felt comforted at once by the sympathy and confidence given her...
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Narration Prompt
In your own words, trace how the quarrel moves from the theatre to the manuscript, the river, and the sisters' reconciliation. Show which choices turn hurt into danger and which begin repair.
Discussion Questions
- Jo refuses Amy a theatre outing, and Amy burns Jo's manuscript in revenge. What makes these acts different, and what makes them part of the same quarrel?
- Amy apologizes, but Jo says she will never forgive her. What could forgiveness require here, and what would it not require?
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Vocabulary
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Lasting anger over a hurt that someone keeps remembering
Item 2
A terrible event that causes deep loss
Item 3
First efforts made to repair a quarrel or begin peace
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