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Narration Prompt
Summarize the chapter and identify the central tension Kate DiCamillo is dramatizing.
Discussion Questions
- Eugenia waits for an automatic 'yes sister' from a sister who has slipped away. Augustine argues that what we fail to notice reveals what we have stopped attending to. Is Kate DiCamillo making an Augustinian observation about chronic agreement and chronic invisibility?
- Across both books, Baby Lincoln has been treated with sustained moral attention as a marginal character. Picture books rarely give this much attention to side characters. What is the writer claiming by the unusual consistency?
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