Mercy Watson Goes for a Ride — Chapter 6

Narration Prompt

Summarize the chapter and identify the central tension.

Discussion Questions

1. Officer Tomilello holds an internal court in four lines. Aristotle in Nicomachean Ethics V argues that justice is the disposition to follow actual law rather than personal preference. Is Kate DiCamillo writing a small Aristotelian demonstration in comic miniature?
2. The officer's distinction ('unusual does not equal illegal') is the corrective to Eugenia's refusal of the same distinction in book 1. The two characters never meet. Is Kate DiCamillo using structural opposition to make a sustained moral argument across two books?

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