Hope Chest

What does this mean?

Page 2: Father towered over Violet.

• Violet's father was very tall.

• Violet looked up to her father.

• They were outside near buildings.

• They had seen tall buildings in New York.

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Page 98: “But darkness had fallen...”

• Dark patches filled the sky.

• It was raining at night.

• The sun had set.

• There is no moon in the sky.

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Page 116: hatchet-faced- the woman looked as though her face had been cut out of a block of wood with a hatchet.

• cut up with scars

• thin, hard, and unpleasant

• perfect and neat lines

• would give you splinters

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Page 123: This is the still before the storm.

• the storm was still going on

• waiting for the weather to change

• the storm had passed

• everything was calm

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Page 116: She was shell shocked by the way Antis thought women should not be allowed to vote.

• unimpressed

• stunned

• delight

• pleased