Lyddie Hho: Chapter Summary And Review

He tells her that her sister, Sarah, is soon to be married. She has grown into a strong teenager and maintains very little outward signs of leprosy. The only friends that have lasted from the Bishop home are Emily and Francine. During her teenage years Rachel faces many of the same problems that most teenagers do. One that bothers her imparticular is the teasing she received for being a virgin. She decide to have sex with Nahoa, but the finds the task less than fulfilling. Rachel continued to hear tales of people being released from the island. She visits the doctor often and she tried several treatments. A lighthouse is being built on the island, and and three lighthouse keepers and their families arrive at Molokai. Rachel meets a keeper named Jake Puehu. Rachel wants to have a relationship with him, but she soon finds that he sees leprosy like everyone else, contagious and disgusting. Rachel is filled with shame and regret that she didn’t realize it sooner. She becomes more desperate for a cure and she signs herself up for the New United States Leprosy Investigation Station. Rachel’s father, Henry, writes to Rachel because he has become ill. He originally thinks that he has leprosy, and he is delighted because he wants to live with Rachel. He then finds out that he has gout. Emily’s health worsens, and Rachel moves in with her. Emily dies. Lani has developed breast but Rachel becomes worried that they are tumors.

In this episode, he reveals his emotional and sensitive side as he attempts to console a tearful Dr. Cuddy who was struggling with maternity. He returns to her house later on in the episode and attempts to cheer her up by bringing Dr. Cuddy an age-enhanced photograph of a teenage Rachel. He tries to get her to understand that the motherly love develops over time. He then admits that the photograph came with the frame and was not Rachel.

The first portion of the novel deals mostly with Hewes life and why he lived the life that he did. Young’s portrayal of a young Hewes, ever defiant, immediately causes a reader to reminisce of his or her own childhood. It soon becomes evidently clear that “where one ended up in life depended

Beyond racial divide, Kingsolver portrays how Rachel’s self-obsession leaves no room for her family in order

Making difficult choices is not easy. Lyddie is faced with hard choices in this story a lot. Many people can relate to this. The book takes place in the 1800s. In that time period people were forced to move away from their family sometimes for work.

Rachel is the oldest of the four daughters, at 15 years of age, the whiny would-be beauty queen who "cares for naught but appearances," can think only of what she misses: the five-day deodorant pads she forgot to bring, flush toilets, machine-washed clothes and other things, as she says with her willful gift for malapropism, that she has taken "for granted," the bible and her faith were no where near the top of her list. Her only way of surviving in the Congo was simply to not adapt at all; as she says ''The way I see Africa, you don't have to like it but you sure have to admit it's out there. You have your way of thinking and it has its, and never the train ye shall meet!'' Thi

“I loved them both. The one I called auntie and the one I called uncle.”, Langston exclaims at the end of the story. Reminiscing on how important those two have been and always will be to him. At the dinner table the night before the revival, Mary notices something is the matter with Langston and inquires as to why his whole mood as changed. Why it is not the one he normally has, especially during dinner time. Langston fails to respond. As if he does not quite know the word choice in which he would use to explain to his aunt the cares and concerns he has. James responds, “He’s afraid of what you said. He’s afraid of being saved.” Mary Reed, distraught, replies to this theory by confronting Langston. “Is that right boy? I thought you were looking forward to it.”, she says with disappointment in her voice. Langston immediately tries to mend the situation, “I am auntie! It’s just…I…nothing.”. Bring himself to tell her the truth and how he felt, he could not. It can be inferred that Langston had the burden of possibly disappointing and letting down his aunt, someone he loved dearly. A burden he could not

“She needed the money . she had to have the money” pg.89. In this quote, Lyddie is referring to the money that she earned over the summer when she was working four looms instead of two and Lyddie made quite a bit of money but it came to an end, and now she wants to do that again so that she can make more money to save the farm. “The money was growing again. She had nearly caught up with the wages lost by her illness…” (139). When Lyddie was sick she lost a good portion of her money. But now Lyddie has almost made all of that money back. “I got more than one hundred dollars to the debt.do not let them sell, Charlie. I beg you.” Lyddie is now begging charlie to stop Judah from selling the farm so that she can pay off the debts and bring Rachel back to the farm. In the end if Lyddie signs the petition she would not be able to pay off the debts because she would lose her

In chapter one started off with an interesting case about a married couple, who were doctors and decided to work within the same hospital. Soon after they started to work there, their marriage started to suffer and in the end they decided to get a divorce. Mr. Whittamore decided that he was going to leave the hospital and was thinking about opening up his own clinic, even though it was against his contract. He thought that he would go talk to Singson and explain the situation to him and see if the contract could be overlooked and allow him to open his clinic. Singson told Whittamore that the contract would stand. Singson responds mad Whittamore upset and the conflict between Singson and Whittamore started. The chapter continued talking about the

This further impacted the children Rachel and Leah, being the oldest daughters in the family. Rachel was a daughter that loved her father and she at first felt that he was the best person in the world. She would always follow him around and be his little princess, that was until she started to see the bad things that he started doing in the dark, mysterious place they were living in. She started to see how arrogant and defensive he became throughout the community and how he threw hissy fits. She realized that enough was enough and she needed to grow accustomed to this new place by herself, just like the narrator did in the poem. This is because she knew that her dad was just going insane and he wanted too much power. She now felt bad for her mom and what he had done to her, and wanted to side with her mom to get out of the community that they were in because they had enough of it. Another thing that happened in the Congo while she was there was something absurd and scarring to say the least. Her sister had started to hunt with the men for meat and Rachel saw what they did when they killed the poor animals lives. Rachel was so startled and appalled that she had to become a vegetarian for a short time while they were there. This just shows that she had to adapt to a new lifestyle because she could not think of eating a poor animal that had an innocent life, but her sister Leach could have cared

Later on in the book Lyddie’s little sister Rachel comes to work at the factory with Lyddie. “It might break my heart to, to send the child away.” The child is Rachel. Now that Lyddie has Rachel she has to take care of herself and her little sister. Now Lyddie has to stay at the factory for her and Rachel. So that they will have a place to stay

My first reason that she has family to think of. When Uncle Judah Dropped off Rachel, on page 118, Lyddie now has to take care of Rachel. Lyddie thought that Rachel looked more dead than alive. If she signed the petition she will get less money than if she didn’t.

In the text it states "I moved the red sweater to the corner of my desk with my ruler." This shows that Rachel acted like a child because only children like to move weird or discusting things with something that's not their hand. Also, this shows that Rachel was scared of touch the sweater because she felt embaressed by Mrs.Price.

Rachel grew up in a house hold where she had to grow up really quick. In her early teenage years she witnesses her mom struggle through abusive relationships with her step dad and other boyfriends that came after. She eventually became an alcoholic. By the time Rachel was 13 year old, she dropped out of school to take the role of the emotional and financial care taker of her mother. Living in her

The only other dynamic character is Laird, her little brother. At the beginning of the story he is very young and obeys his big sister, no matter what she tells him to do; at the end, he too has grown up somewhat and no longer accepts her authority unquestioningly. He puts an end to their bedtime singing ceremony when he tells her, "You sound silly," and tells on her when she lets the horse escape. Laird is the only character beside Henry Bailey that is given a name. His name, a Scotch form of the title "Lord," demonstrates his importance to the family, as the only boy, and his place in society, which will have more respect for him than for his sister. Yet, in the story it is evident that the narrator is just as good a worker as her brother-far better, because of her advantage in age. It is only because she is a girl that her mother expects her to be a help inside the house, not outside of it. The other characters are the narrator's father, her mother, and the hired hand, Henry Bailey. Henry is someone whom the children admire for his "ability to make his stomach growl at will, and for his laughter, which was full of high whistlings and gurglings and involved the whole faulty machinery of his chest," and for other characteristics that adults might find vulgar, but that are wondrous and exciting to the children. The father is a creative, inventive man and a hard worker, who keeps his thoughts to himself but, in the narrator's opinion, can be depended upon. The mother is a