Mercy Watson to the Rescue — Chapter 6

Narration Prompt

Summarize the chapter's narrative arc, then identify the central tension Kate DiCamillo is dramatizing and evaluate whether she handles it honestly.

Discussion Questions

1. Eugenia insists 'I am never wrong' while being demonstrably wrong about every claim she makes. Aristotle, Aquinas, and Augustine each have different accounts of why proud men deceive themselves. Which framework reads Eugenia most precisely? What does each framework miss?
2. Baby Lincoln keeps publicly silent through every error of her sister's until cruelty appears. The line of her silence is love. Augustine in De Mendacio distinguishes love-bound silence from cowardly silence. Is Baby's silence Augustinian, or is it something rarer — a household discipline that has no name in the philosophical literature?

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