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Narration Prompt
Summarize the chapter's arc, then identify the central tension Barrie develops between comic human folly and the larger forces gathering around it, and evaluate whether he handles that tension honestly and effectively.
Discussion Questions
- The grieving Darlings rake through a chain of trifles, a party accepted, a dose poured, searching for the single choice that doomed them, while the narrator notes the stars were 'on his side to-night.' Does the chapter present this catastrophe as something the parents truly caused, or as something larger that merely used their folly, and why? Use the chapter's details about the parents' guilt and the stars to explain.
- Mrs. Darling recalls the romp: 'How wildly we romped!' Mr. Darling answers: 'Our last romp!' What does Barrie achieve by giving the same memory both of those registers at once, and why? Use the chapter's details about the retrospective to explain.
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