Heidi Chapter Summaries

Bracing himself for trouble, Josh opened the door. The couple, a man and woman, inquired about the boys health, and whether they had eaten. The woman Josie, was very nice and seem genuinely concerned about the boys, Ben, however was the opposite. Josh told the couple they were heading to Montana where their grandfather lived. After feeding them, and listening to the boy’s music, they sent them on their way.

Heidi’s biological mother does not have the money to provide material things like her adopted mother. She does have the capacity to love Heidi and expresses it openly, unlike her adopted mother (Dolgin & Franco, 2002).

Short Plot Summary Tina Fey starts her section off with explaining “One of my five hundred nicknames for my daughter is Miedge, which is short for Midget, because she was a very small baby.” (239) Tina Fey went into a “deep depression” after having her baby. (pg 240) The best thing for moms to do that the author writes about is “carve out a little time for yourself” (243) There can be some weird things in motherhood but it's well worth it.

All she had to do was survive, and that seed could grow.” Heidi lives a very isolated life without much contact with other children, she hasn’t had the experience of playing with kids her own age. Also, she doesn’t have a clue about the outside world. A lot of the kids in the Holocaust grew up way too fast, they had to learn to support themselves. That is not the case for Heidi, she always has someone to look after her and rely on.

The book starts off with Liesel, aka the book thief, on a train traveling to Munich with her brother named Werner and their mother. But on the way there the train stops working and Werner ends up dying, but while he is being buried Liesel takes a book from one of the gravediggers. After getting on another train they get to Munich where Liesel is giving away to foster care. She really doesn’t want to leave but she knows that it’s for the best that she leaves her mother and go into foster care.

She had discovered the power of words and it felt so exhilarating! She wrote and explored her new found creative love with passion until the door flew open and Miss Muller and Miss Margot rushed in beaming, "We're heard that the war will soon be over and everyone will be freed." Willy jumped up into the air and twirled and then ran over laughing and hugged the ladies. Joseph who was still feeling rather ill sat and clapped his hands and coughed twice. And Anna smiled happily dropped her pen and paper and declared, "I can't believe that we had survived in your basement for so long. It will be such a pleasure to feel the sunshine on my shoulders again." then she stood up and began to twirl around, and around. Midway through her third twirl a violently tremor tossed her to the floor. Then there was another shake and a loud crash as a squad of German soldiers kicked in the front door. Once the soldiers were in they marched around their blacks boots making a click clock sound on the wood floors as they searching. Everyone held their breath and listened as the soldiers opened squeaky doors and then slamming them shut, door after door until finally they entered into the tiny room where the group five was huddled together. Four were on their feet and other remained seated. The tall SS officer who was in charge smiled at the them and mocked, "We're making merriment yes?" Then he pointed to them squinting his small devious blue eyes and demanded, "What's your names?" Everyone gave their name and he frowned at Joseph and through clenched teeth snickered, "You let's go." Miss Margot ran over and stood in front of Joseph and cried, "No, not him, he has hasn't done anything!" One of the soldiers yelled, "Be quiet and get out the way old lady their only being taken a labor camp. Then he knocked her to the floor with the butt of his gun. Willy gasped for air and Anna dashed over to help her up. The officer smirked with

When he sat up he saw a grandma, but this was not any grandma it was thee grandma. It was grandma Debbie. This was the one he got blamed for tying up and stuffing in the closet. She was staring him down looking like a shootoff was about to happen. Schlargen could smell the sweet smell of chocolate chip cookies as grandma Debbie pulled them out. Schlargen saw the steam rising from them as if it was a real cloud from outside. The chocolate perfectly melted into the cookie, like a chocolate river from Charlie and The Chocolate Factory. As she took a bite the crumbs fell like raindrops onto the ground. He could barely resist, but then he tried to grab them and ran into the metal bars that he forgot were there. As soon as Schlargen woke up again he sat up and started screaming. Little Felicia Wendys (Little red riding hood) could not stand the screaming so she finally revealed herself from behind the wall. Schlargen just went back to sit in the the corner after seeing her. Hours later the same police officer came back and took him to the therapy office. After the meeting Schlargen was so happy he couldn’t believe it, he got a retrial. Over at granny's house it was a normal day with protesters in front of her house, when out of nowhere an officer cuffed granny and Little Felicia to take them to the

Heidi goes from being rich and spoiled to unlucky. Throughout the start of the book, Heidi is shown in a way that shows she has happy parents and a good life, but she eventually loses that privilege. Heidi was sent to

Tom and Kara possess many strengths even though they live in poverty. First, Tom and Kara have kinship. In the chapter talking about Tom and Kara, it talks about how kinship can blunt the edge of economic adversity. This can be seen in Tom and Kara. This is evident when Tom and Kara collected enough scraps of money to treat their family to a restaurant meal.

During Christmastime, the family trades simple gifts to one another. Francie attends a Christmas event for the underprivileged children, where all the kids are too proud to accept any of the offers. When a small child wants to give away one of her dolls to whoever is named “Mary,” no one stirs. Francie, not wanting to let the gift to go to waste, lies about her name to bring the doll home. Although all of the other children keep their pride, she loses it, and feel embarrassed.

“Well, he said he wanted to learn about the triumphant glories of the Republic Program, and Holy Mother Church,” Heidi lied. She only did so in order to remain on the safe side. “Because it just so happens, that not only am I a Roman Catholic, I also happened to be a Ryanite, prior to attending this school.”

In the very beginning, the protagonist, Liesel, is faced with her first tragic encounter. On a train traveling toward Munich to live with foster parents, Liesel endures the death of her six year old brother. “There was an intense spurt of coughing. Almost an inspired spurt. And soon after-nothing” (Zusak 20). Her brother’s death happens so quickly that Liesel and her mother are left in disbelief and despair. This incentive moment began the tragic journey for Liesel or as Death named her, the Book Thief. After leaving her mom and being brought to her foster home, Liesel clings to the hope that this is just temporary. Because her foster father, Hans, taught her how to read and write, she desperately attempts to reach out through letters to her mom with no response. Even though Liesel is in this tragic journey, she has comfort and companionship from her foster parent, Hans, Rudy, a neighbor boy, and finally Max, the hidden Jew. Each of these relationships causes a chain reaction towards tragedy. As for Hans, “Liesel observed the strangeness of her foster father's eyes. They were made of kindness, and silver. Like soft silver, melting” (Zusak 34). Because of his kindness, Liesel also observes the tragedy. Having seen Hans being whipped multiple times in front of many people for helping a Jew and then drafted into war for also helping a Jew, Liesel sees the consequences for standing up for your own beliefs. Hans also developed in Liesel the love of reading which causes her to stand in horror and watch the burning of the book ceremony. Rudy, on the other hand, has a different relationship with Liesel. A love hate relationship that dealt with stealing and a childhood of mischievousness, these two characters bring joy in each others’ lives. Not knowing what they would do without each other, Liesel and Rudy depend on each other only to have that

Susie’s mother opened the door to let Molly, Susie’s babysitter, inside. Ten-month old Susie seemed happy to see Molly. Susie then observed her mother put her jacket on and Susie’s face turned from smiling to sad as she realized that her mother was going out. Molly had sat for Susie many times in the past month, and Susie had never reacted like this before. When Susie’s mother returned home, the sitter told her that Susie had cried until she knew that her mother had left and then they had a nice time playing with toys until she heard her mother’s key in the door. Then Susie began crying once again.

Her life is so bad the village knows her as "Brat" and has to sleep in a pile of dung to stay warm at night. She wants nothing more than to find a niche and to be accepted for who she is in the village. It all seemed hopeless until one day she becomes the Midwifes apprentice, a blessing in disguise. However, life wasn't easy either. She still slept in dung and she had

She went on home and explained to her grandpa what was going on and how much getting that jacket meant to her. She explained to him that it was not only a jacket, but it showed the hard work she had done in the last eight years and that is why they where giving it to her. Then, she let him know the downside of the reward; she had to pay fifteen dollars for it. Her grandpa was kind of confused about the situation.