Ariel asked if Johnny was really sick or was Katie was saying he was drunk. Was this foreshadowing anything? I answered that Katie was just saying he was drunk and that it wasn't really overshadowing anything.
Ariel didn't understand about the rapist in Ch 33. She wanted to know where he came from. I answered that he came from the shadows in the hallway.
Ariel asked why Francie feels that she can't be nice to Joanna. I answered that she was told that Joanna was a bad girl and so Francie didn't smile at her.
McKenzie asked why the family keeps rereading all the books they had. Alyssa answered that they had no other books. Alyssa also said how Francie was getting tired of them.
Asked what a zitful cap was. I answered that it was a type of woolen cap.
Asked why Katie gave up on buying land after they get Johnny's burial plot. I said that this was because they saw how much a small plot of land costed and so Katie gave up on buying land.
Why does Katie tell the children not to cry when Johnny died? I answered that Katie didn't want the children to show their weakness.
Alyssa asked what made Francie so interested in the facts about sex now. Answer was that she was growing up and wanted to know.
Said how these chapters are a foreshadowing of what's going to happen later in the book.
I asked why the children were thought that Johnny was a bad father when Francie and Neely didn't want to see their dead father in a coffin outside of their kitchen. Answer was obvious, they were children and their dad had just died.
I asked why Francie put carbolic acid on her leg. What had touched her leg was in no way poisonous and the carbolic acid just gave her third degree burns.
I asked what the father must have thought when Lucia and her family went back to Italy with no baby. Everyone agreed that its weird that the father forgot about the baby so quickly.
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