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This passage shows the frightening quiet that falls on the bungalow during the cholera outbreak, and it lets young readers feel what it is like to be a forgotten child wandering through empty rooms.
Mary alternately cried and slept through the hours. She only knew that people were ill and that she heard mysterious and frightening sounds. Once she crept into the dining-room and found it empty, tho...
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Narration Prompt
Retell what happens to Mary from the morning she wakes up cross until Barney finds her alone in the nursery in India.
Discussion Questions
- What in the story tells you that Mary Lennox was a difficult little girl even before the cholera came to India?
- How do you know that Mary did not feel close to her mother, the Mem Sahib, when they lived in India together?
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Item 1
Feeling angry or grumpy about something that has happened.
Item 2
Looking unhappy or unpleasant on the face, as if tasting something bitter.
Item 3
Not pleasant to look at or to be near.
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