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Narration Prompt
Summarize the chapter's narrative arc and identify the central tension.
Discussion Questions
- The chapter is staged as a naming contest: 'porcine wonder' vs. 'pig.' Genesis 2 makes naming the first act of stewardship; Augustine treats names as bearers of love. Is Kate DiCamillo working in this tradition — that to name rightly is to love rightly?
- Eugenia's hug at the start of the chapter is unexplained. The same character who chased Mercy now embraces her. Augustine insists that conversion is sudden, unwilled, gracious. Is Kate DiCamillo making an Augustinian claim about how change actually happens?
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