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2,912 | 1900_chapter_25 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Having been able to observe the Typee people as a whole for the first time at the festival, Tommo comes to a few conclusions, particularly that pretty much everyone seems to be beautiful and able-bodied. Even the aged have good teeth! Where Nukuheva men were bad-looking, and the women good, Tommo believes that the "unc... | [
"ALTHOUGH I had been unable during the late festival to obtain\ninformation on many interesting subjects which had much excited my\ncuriosity, still that important event had not passed by without adding\nmaterially to my general knowledge of the islanders.",
"I was especially struck by the physical strength and b... |
2,913 | 1900_chapter_26 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Thinking about "King Mehevi" , Tommo discusses the polluting greed of royalty and how Mehevi is an exception. He also talks about the presence of matrimonial relationships. He notes that, while Marheyo and Tinor seem to be in a committed, domestic relationship, some partnered men consort with other women. Mehevi himsel... | [
"KING MEHEVI!--A goodly sounding title--and why should I not bestow\nit upon the foremost man in the valley of Typee? The republican\nmissionaries of Oahu cause to be gazetted in the Court Journal,\npublished at Honolulu, the most trivial movement of 'his gracious\nmajesty' King Kammehammaha III, and 'their highnes... |
2,914 | 1900_chapter_27 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Tommo now concerns himself with explaining the concept of governance and law in the Typee Valley. "Taboo" are the only rules he's encountered, and he wonders how everything stays in such good order. People maintain their own property without worrying if anyone's going to steal anything, for example. They take what they... | [
"I HAVE already mentioned that the influence exerted over the people\nof the valley by their chiefs was mild in the extreme; and as to any\ngeneral rule or standard of conduct by which the commonality were\ngoverned in their intercourse with each other, so far as my observation\nextended, I should be almost tempted... |
2,915 | 1900_chapter_28 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In order to further convince us of the Typee's kindness, Tommo describes their fishing parties, which occur after several young men have gone for two days to collect fish. The fish is divided until each household receives a packet, equitably. When a portion comes to Marheyo's household, they hold a midnight banquet. It... | [
"THERE was no instance in which the social and kindly dispositions of the\nTypees were more forcibly evinced than in the manner the conducted their\ngreat fishing parties. Four times during my stay in the valley the young\nmen assembled near the full of the moon, and went together on these\nexcursions. As they were... |
2,916 | 1900_chapter_29 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The natural history of the valley is next up for discussion. Tommo mentions large, rat-like dogs, big cats, and tame lizards and birds. Although other Polynesian islands have to deal with mosquitos all the time, there doesn't seem to be much in the way of bugs in the valley, besides a small variety of fly. The weather ... | [
"I THINK I must enlighten the reader a little about the natural history\nof the valley.",
"Whence, in the name of Count Buffon and Baron Cuvier, came those dogs\nthat I saw in Typee? Dogs!--Big hairless rats rather; all with smooth,\nshining speckled hides--fat sides, and very disagreeable faces. Whence\ncould th... |
2,917 | 1900_chapter_30 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | After mentioning the tattoos on the Typee, Tommo describes an artist at work. The tattoo artist, Karky, attempts to convince Tommo to get a tattoo himself, but Tommo manages to avoid it. This makes him think about his captivity, that he could be permanently marked forever should he ever get home. After this first encou... | [
"IN one of my strolls with Kory-Kory, in passing along the border of a\nthick growth of bushes, my attention was arrested by a singular noise.\nOn entering the thicket I witnessed for the first time the operation of\ntattooing as performed by these islanders.",
"I beheld a man extended flat upon his back on the g... |
2,918 | 1900_chapter_31 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Tommo knows he's been going on and on, but he wants just a bit more time to talk about the customs of the Typee. At Marheyo's, for instance, the whole household gathers to chant before bed, drumming with sticks. While the women are melodic, the men are more guttural. One night, Tommo sings an old folk song at the Ti, a... | [
"SADLY discursive as I have already been, I must still further entreat\nthe reader's patience, as I am about to string together, without any\nattempt at order, a few odds and ends of things not hitherto mentioned,\nbut which are either curious in themselves or peculiar to the Typees.",
"There was one singular cus... |
2,919 | 1900_chapter_32 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Once Karky starts after him, Tommo realizes the jig is up. The Typee want to further ensconce him in the valley, and he just wants to go home. Although Tommo enjoys the friendship of Kory-Kory, and the beauty and devotion of Fayaway, he's becoming increasingly aware of his limitations and captivity. His leg begins to b... | [
"FROM the time of my casual encounter with Karky the artist, my life was one of absolute wretchedness. Not a day passed but I was persecuted by the solicitations of some of the natives to subject myself to the odious operation of tattooing. Their importunities drove me half wild, for I felt how easily they might wo... |
2,920 | 1900_chapter_33 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Ten days after the cannibalism was confirmed, Marnoo returns to the Typee Valley. Tommo asks if he can leave with him, but Marnoo says that he is taboo, and that even though white men are usually afraid to come to the valley, it seems like he has everything he needs: sleep, food, young girls. Tommo explains about his l... | [
"'MARNOO, Marnoo pemi!' Such were the welcome sounds which fell upon my\near some ten days after the events related in the preceding chapter.\nOnce more the approach of the stranger was heralded, and the\nintelligence operated upon me like magic. Again I should be able to\nconverse with him in my own language; and ... |
2,921 | 1900_chapter_34 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | It is three weeks since Marnoo's latest departure and four months since Tommo first arrived to the valley. A one-eyed chief, Mow-Mow, appears at Marheyo's door to tell Tommo that Toby has arrived. Tommo is carried by Kory-Kory toward the Ti, while Mow-Mow explains that a boat has just arrived carrying Toby. Tommo wants... | [
"NEARLY three weeks had elapsed since the second visit of Marnoo, and it\nmust have been more than four months since I entered the valley, when\none day about noon, and whilst everything was in profound silence,\nMow-Mow, the one-eyed chief, suddenly appeared at the door, and leaning\ntowards me as I lay directly f... |
2,888 | 1900_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The whaling ship on which the narrator works, the Dolly, has been out to sea for six months without seeing land. Almost all of the fresh food has disappeared, with the exception of one chicken. With a crew longing for land, the captain, Captain Vangs, decides that they will head towards the Marquesas Islands and determ... | [
"Six months at sea! Yes, reader, as I live, six months out of sight of\nland; cruising after the sperm-whale beneath the scorching sun of the\nLine, and tossed on the billows of the wide-rolling Pacific--the sky\nabove, the sea around, and nothing else! Weeks and weeks ago our fresh\nprovisions were all exhausted. ... |
2,889 | 1900_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Knowing that they will soon hit land, the crew of the Dolly rests languidly watching the sights of the sea and doing little work. After a few days, they happily hear, "land ho. They sail into the bay of the largest island, Nukuheva. A small fleet of French ships sits in the bay and the crew learns that the French have ... | [
"I CAN never forget the eighteen or twenty days during which the light\ntrade-winds were silently sweeping us towards the islands. In pursuit of\nthe sperm whale, we had been cruising on the line some twenty degrees\nto the westward of the Gallipagos; and all that we had to do, when our\ncourse was determined on, w... |
2,890 | 1900_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | It is the summer of 1842 and the French have arrived on the island only a few weeks before the Dolly. About a hundred French soldiers now live around the bay. The natives come from their huts to watch the foreigners. They appear intrigued by European customs and especially are impressed by the arrival of a European hor... | [
"IT was in the summer of 1842 that we arrived at the islands; the French\nhad then held possession of them for several weeks. During this time\nthey had visited some of the principal places in the group, and had\ndisembarked at various points about five hundred troops. These were\nemployed in constructing works of ... |
2,891 | 1900_chapter_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | After a few days in Nukuheva, the narrator decides that he wants to abandon his ship. He has been aboard for about a year and a half and has signed a several year contract, but he is tired of the terrible living conditions. The captain treats the sailors poorly--overworking them, not feeding them enough, and punishing ... | [
"OUR ship had not been many days in the harbour of Nukuheva before I came\nto the determination of leaving her. That my reasons for resolving to\ntake this step were numerous and weighty, may be inferred from the fact\nthat I chose rather to risk my fortunes among the savages of the island\nthan to endure another v... |
2,892 | 1900_chapter_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The narrator knows that the captain would take all measures against his flight if he knew of it, including having other shipmates turn him in, so the narrator remains silent even though he greatly anticipates his freedom. Walking the deck one night, the narrator sees Toby, a fellow shipmate, lost in a reverie while sta... | [
"HAVING fully resolved to leave the vessel clandestinely, and having\nacquired all the knowledge concerning the bay that I could obtain under\nthe circumstances in which I was placed, I now deliberately turned over\nin my mind every plan to escape that suggested itself, being determined\nto act with all possible pr... |
2,893 | 1900_chapter_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Captain has given a large portion of the crew permission to head to shore for the day, which they all plan to do. Before they go, the Captain delivers a lecture about the dangers of the cannibal natives, but everyone still wishes to leave. The narrator hides some bits of bread, a piece of calico cloth, and some tob... | [
"EARLY the next morning the starboard watch were mustered upon the\nquarter-deck, and our worthy captain, standing in the cabin gangway,\nharangued us as follows:--",
"'Now, men, as we are just off a six months' cruise, and have got through\nmost all our work in port here, I suppose you want to go ashore. Well, I... |
2,894 | 1900_chapter_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | From their spot on the mountain, the narrator expects to see the valleys of Typee and Happar behind them, but instead he only sees elevated land. He begins to wonder how they will survive as they are hiding. He and Toby decide to assess the supplies that they brought. The narrator's bread has melted away in the rain, b... | [
"MY curiosity had been not a little raised with regard to the description\nof country we should meet on the other side of the mountains; and I had\nsupposed, with Toby, that immediately on gaining the heights we should\nbe enabled to view the large bays of Happar and Typee reposing at our\nfeet on one side, in the ... |
2,895 | 1900_chapter_8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Waking Toby, the two men gaze into the valley and begin to wonder whether the Happars or the Typees live there. Toby promptly determines that it is the Happar valley and decides that they should go there right away, since the Happars are friendly with Europeans. The narrator is skeptical. He fears falling in with the T... | [
"RECOVERING from my astonishment at the beautiful scene before me, I\nquickly awakened Toby, and informed him of the discovery I had made.\nTogether we now repaired to the border of the precipice, and my\ncompanion's admiration was equal to my own. A little reflection,\nhowever, abated our surprise at coming so une... |
2,896 | 1900_chapter_9 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The narrator picks up on Toby's enthusiasm at finding natives, and he temporarily forgets his fears about meeting cannibalistic savages. Their descent into the valley is difficult, though. Soon they come across an enormous ravine from which there is no path down, only a crashing waterfall. Toby determines that the only... | [
"The fearless confidence of Toby was contagious, and I began to adopt the\nHappar side of the question. I could not, however, overcome a certain\nfeeling of trepidation as we made our way along these gloomy solitudes.\nOur progress, at first comparatively easy, became more and more\ndifficult. The bed of the waterc... |
2,897 | 1900_chapter_10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The valley appears to be uninhabited, but the two men move tentatively since they do not want to meet the natives. As they wander, they finally come across a natural fruit tree, called "annuee. They are overjoyed and quickly shovel many of these fruits into their mouths, even though they are particularly decayed. A few... | [
"HOW to obtain the fruit which we felt convinced must grow near at hand\nwas our first thought.",
"Typee or Happar? A frightful death at the hands of the fiercest of\ncannibals, or a kindly reception from a gentler race of savages? Which?\nBut it was too late now to discuss a question which would so soon be\nansw... |
2,898 | 1900_chapter_11 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | When Tommo wakes, it is broad day and a group of young girls are sitting around him, almost making him uncomfortable in their familiarity. Mehevi soon appears. Intricate tattoos cover him and he wears fine native gear, such as a necklace of boar tusks. Mehevi eagerly jumps into conversation about French people and othe... | [
"VARIOUS and conflicting were the thoughts which oppressed me during the\nsilent hours that followed the events related in the preceding chapter. Toby, wearied with the fatigues of the day, slumbered heavily by my\nside; but the pain under which I was suffering effectually prevented\nmy sleeping, and I remained dis... |
2,899 | 1900_chapter_12 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Kory-Kory immediately proves to be a highly attentive servant. He feeds Tommo at each meal, not even letting Tommo place food in his own mouth. He carries him everywhere and thoroughly bathes him in the stream each morning. The next day, Mehevi arrives and takes them all to the "taboo groves," where the Typees keep the... | [
"WHEN Mehevi had departed from the house, as related in the preceding\nchapter, Kory-Kory commenced the functions of the post assigned him.\nHe brought out, various kinds of food; and, as if I were an infant,\ninsisted upon feeding me with his own hands. To this procedure I, of\ncourse, most earnestly objected, but... |
2,900 | 1900_chapter_13 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | For another week, the Typees treat Tommo and Toby with utmost attention. Toby cannot stop his worrying, however. Tommo's leg continues to throb, despite native treatments. Toby agrees to travel to Nukuheva for him to get some proper medicine from a French ship. The Typees tentatively consent to the plan and Marheyo wal... | [
"AMIDST these novel scenes a week passed away almost imperceptibly. The\nnatives, actuated by some mysterious impulse, day after day redoubled\ntheir attentions to us. Their manner towards us was unaccountable.\nSurely, thought I, they would not act thus if they meant us any harm.\nBut why this excess of deferentia... |
2,901 | 1900_chapter_14 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Tommo's leg continues to pain him, as does his anxiety over whether or not the Typees will eventually eat him. One morning as he is resting, he hears a great commotion because a group of French ships have sailed into the Typee bay. The natives all start gathering produce and goods to bring to the ships. Tommo wants to ... | [
"IN the course of a few days Toby had recovered from the effects of\nhis adventure with the Happar warriors; the wound on his head rapidly\nhealing under the vegetable treatment of the good Tinor. Less fortunate\nthan my companion however, I still continued to languish under a\ncomplaint, the origin and nature of w... |
2,902 | 1900_chapter_15 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | While the whole community treats Tommo well, the household of Marheyo is especially solicitous. For example, one day Marheyo prepares an extensive seaweed salad for him. Tommo does not like it, but tries to eat it anyhow. He also describes in length how "poee-poee," the classic breadfruit dish, is prepared. | [
"ALL the inhabitants of the valley treated me with great kindness; but as\nto the household of Marheyo, with whom I was now permanently domiciled,\nnothing could surpass their efforts to minister to my comfort. To the\ngratification of my palate they paid the most unwearied attention.\nThey continually invited me t... |
2,903 | 1900_chapter_16 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Tommo remains melancholic since Toby disappeared. He feels lonely and his leg still hurts. Tommo also has concluded that he may truly be trapped in the valley. One day at the Ti with the chiefs, they hear a rumor that boats may have once again appeared in the bay. Tommo feels elated, since he thinks that Toby may have ... | [
"IN looking back to this period, and calling to remembrance the\nnumberless proofs of kindness and respect which I received from the\nnatives of the valley, I can scarcely understand how it was that, in the\nmidst of so many consolatory circumstances, my mind should still have\nbeen consumed by the most dismal fore... |
2,904 | 1900_chapter_17 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | As the days go on, Tommo's leg becomes much better. With the injury improved, he is able to walk around the valley more than before. But he is never allowed to go anywhere alone. Kory-Kory always comes with him and Fayaway usually does as well. He wants to go see the ocean, but the Typees will not let him. Wandering ar... | [
"DAY after day wore on, and still there was no perceptible change in the\nconduct of the islanders towards me. Gradually I lost all knowledge of\nthe regular recurrence of the days of the week, and sunk insensibly into\nthat kind of apathy which ensues after some violent outburst of despair.\nMy limb suddenly heale... |
2,905 | 1900_chapter_18 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Tommo keeps doing more in the valley as he feels better. One of his favorite activities is his morning bathe with a group of girls. They are amazing swimmers and always get away when he tries to wrestle them to the stream's bottom. He also is allowed to use the canoes, but women are prohibited from doing so, as it is t... | [
"RETURNING health and peace of mind gave a new interest to everything\naround me. I sought to diversify my time by as many enjoyments as lay\nwithin my reach. Bathing in company with troops of girls formed one of\nmy chief amusements. We sometimes enjoyed the recreation in the waters\nof a miniature lake, to which ... |
2,906 | 1900_chapter_19 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mehevi and the other chiefs seem slightly angry at Tommo after Marnoo leaves. Even Kory-Kory appears to bear him a small grudge. Tommo now has been in the valley for about two months and his leg feels so well that he moves around easily. One day he makes a small "pop-gun" out of bamboo for a six-year old boy, which sho... | [
"THE knowledge I had now obtained as to the intention of the savages\ndeeply affected me.",
"Marnoo, I perceived, was a man who, by reason of his superior\nacquirements, and the knowledge he possessed of the events which were\ntaking place in the different bays of the island, was held in no little\nestimation by ... |
2,907 | 1900_chapter_20 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In order to best describe Typee life, the narrator profiles a typical day. Usually, they wake late, after the sun is up. Then they rise and bathe in a nearby refreshing stream. A light breakfast is enjoyed and then pipes are smoked. After breakfast, people tend to whatever they like. Tinor inspects her cloth and food s... | [
"NOTHING can be more uniform and undiversified than the life of the\nTypees; one tranquil day of ease and happiness follows another in quiet\nsuccession; and with these unsophisicated savages the history of a\nday is the history of a life. I will, therefore, as briefly as I can,\ndescribe one of our days in the val... |
2,908 | 1900_chapter_21 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The valley also contains a medicinal spring far from any dwelling. It is called "Arva Wai" which means "strong waters. The narrator thinks that it tastes unpleasant, although Marheyo frequently drinks it. Near the spring stand large, finely constructed terraces of stone, apparently having once been arranged by the anci... | [
"ALMOST every country has its medicinal springs famed for their healing\nvirtues. The Cheltenham of Typee is embosomed in the deepest solitude,\nand but seldom receives a visitor. It is situated remote from any\ndwelling, a little way up the mountain, near the head of the valley; and\nyou approach it by a pathway s... |
2,909 | 1900_chapter_22 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Tommo visits the Ti everyday to spend time with Mehevi, since the Ti is one of the best places to be for good conversation and the best food. One day, Tommo senses great commotion around the Ti and learns that a large festival will take place on the following day. Pigs are being caught to be roasted and many calabashes... | [
"FROM the time that my lameness had decreased I had made a daily practice\nof visiting Mehevi at the Ti, who invariably gave me a most cordial\nreception. I was always accompanied in these excursions by Fayaway\nand the ever-present Kory-Kory. The former, as soon as we reached the\nvicinity of the Ti--which was rig... |
2,910 | 1900_chapter_23 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The whole population of the valley has gathered at Ti for the celebration. Poee- poee, green breadfruit, cooked pork, and fresh bananas abound and everyone eats their fill while smoking and drinking "arva," a local intoxicating brew. On the second day of the Feast, Tommo sees some wailing women and learns that they are... | [
"THE whole population of the valley seemed to be gathered within the\nprecincts of the grove. In the distance could be seen the long front of\nthe Ti, its immense piazza swarming with men, arrayed in every variety\nof fantastic costume, and all vociferating with animated gestures; while\nthe whole interval between ... |
2,911 | 1900_chapter_24 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Although Tommo still does not understand the purpose of the Feast of Calabashes, he recognizes that it has a religious connotation and this leads him to discuss religion amongst the Typees. Generally, European missionaries have condemned these natives as the religious savages, but the narrator feels that many of these ... | [
"ALTHOUGH I had been baffled in my attempts to learn the origin of\nthe Feast of Calabashes, yet it seemed very plain to me that it was\nprincipally, if not wholly, of a religious character. As a religious\nsolemnity, however, it had not at all corresponded with the horrible\ndescriptions of Polynesian worship whic... |
2,912 | 1900_chapter_25 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Tommo finds the Typees to be the most beautiful native people that he ever has seen. Their complexions and hair are almost perfect. Both the men and women are spry, healthy, and beautiful, quite different from their European counterparts. Women wear their hair long and frequently adorn it with oils, as they do their sk... | [
"ALTHOUGH I had been unable during the late festival to obtain\ninformation on many interesting subjects which had much excited my\ncuriosity, still that important event had not passed by without adding\nmaterially to my general knowledge of the islanders.",
"I was especially struck by the physical strength and b... |
2,913 | 1900_chapter_26 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Tommo believes that Mehevi's status is akin to being a "King," but again notes that Mehevi's behavior is less formal than many Europeans Kings. For example, Tommo has seen Mehevi, on a few occasions, making love to a young native girl. Tommo always thought Mehevi was a bachelor, but now he knows that Mahevi has a stead... | [
"KING MEHEVI!--A goodly sounding title--and why should I not bestow\nit upon the foremost man in the valley of Typee? The republican\nmissionaries of Oahu cause to be gazetted in the Court Journal,\npublished at Honolulu, the most trivial movement of 'his gracious\nmajesty' King Kammehammaha III, and 'their highnes... |
2,914 | 1900_chapter_27 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | For those interested in how the Typees managed to govern themselves, the narrator notes that he never witnessed anyone put on trial or accused of any wrongdoing. The Typees seem to govern themselves according to common-sense law, almost like an honor code. The narrator never sees a single quarrel during his whole stay ... | [
"I HAVE already mentioned that the influence exerted over the people\nof the valley by their chiefs was mild in the extreme; and as to any\ngeneral rule or standard of conduct by which the commonality were\ngoverned in their intercourse with each other, so far as my observation\nextended, I should be almost tempted... |
2,915 | 1900_chapter_28 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The generosity of the Typees can easily be seen in the way they conduct their fishing parties. The Typees adore fish, but catching fresh fish is not done everyday because it involves natives carefully heading to the ocean. When it is done, however, everyone shares in the bounty. When the fishermen return with their cat... | [
"THERE was no instance in which the social and kindly dispositions of the\nTypees were more forcibly evinced than in the manner the conducted their\ngreat fishing parties. Four times during my stay in the valley the young\nmen assembled near the full of the moon, and went together on these\nexcursions. As they were... |
2,916 | 1900_chapter_29 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Typee valley has dogs in it that resemble large hairless rats. The narrator asks Mehevi to kill some of them, but Mehevi tells him it is taboo to do so. One day, the narrator wakes to find a black domestic cat near him and has no idea how the creature came to live on the island. Many golden lizards do live on the i... | [
"I THINK I must enlighten the reader a little about the natural history\nof the valley.",
"Whence, in the name of Count Buffon and Baron Cuvier, came those dogs\nthat I saw in Typee? Dogs!--Big hairless rats rather; all with smooth,\nshining speckled hides--fat sides, and very disagreeable faces. Whence\ncould th... |
2,917 | 1900_chapter_30 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In one of his strolls with Kory-Kory, the narrator comes across the house of the tattoo artist. A man lies under the artist, in evident pain from the needle pressing into his skin. When the narrator enters the hut to watch, the tattoo artist, named Karky, becomes elated. He gets up and gestures for the narrator to come... | [
"IN one of my strolls with Kory-Kory, in passing along the border of a\nthick growth of bushes, my attention was arrested by a singular noise.\nOn entering the thicket I witnessed for the first time the operation of\ntattooing as performed by these islanders.",
"I beheld a man extended flat upon his back on the g... |
2,918 | 1900_chapter_31 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Each night before the Typees go to bed, they chant together. This chanting can last for several hours and everyone in the household is involved. Tommo never learns exactly what purpose this chanting is supposed to serve. He assumes that it is part of a Typee religious ritual. Even though they chant, however, the native... | [
"SADLY discursive as I have already been, I must still further entreat\nthe reader's patience, as I am about to string together, without any\nattempt at order, a few odds and ends of things not hitherto mentioned,\nbut which are either curious in themselves or peculiar to the Typees.",
"There was one singular cus... |
2,919 | 1900_chapter_32 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | After everyone starts badgering Tommo about getting tattooed, he feels alone and melancholy once again. His leg injury also painfully returns. He now has been with the Typees for about three months. One day, while in this unhappy frame of mind, he returns home to find Marheyo and some other men examining a package that... | [
"FROM the time of my casual encounter with Karky the artist, my life was one of absolute wretchedness. Not a day passed but I was persecuted by the solicitations of some of the natives to subject myself to the odious operation of tattooing. Their importunities drove me half wild, for I felt how easily they might wo... |
2,888 | 1900_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The novel begins with the principal character addressing the reader. He then goes on to regale the reader with a description of his life on the sea. Six months has passed since they left the shores, and all their provisions are exhausted. The speaker misses the sight of land and yearns for a glimpse of greenery. Food i... | [
"Six months at sea! Yes, reader, as I live, six months out of sight of\nland; cruising after the sperm-whale beneath the scorching sun of the\nLine, and tossed on the billows of the wide-rolling Pacific--the sky\nabove, the sea around, and nothing else! Weeks and weeks ago our fresh\nprovisions were all exhausted. ... |
2,889 | 1900_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The speaker recollects that they had taken fifteen to twenty days to reach the shores. In the meanwhile, lethargy and leisure reigns on the ship 'Dolly.' The crewmen and even the officers spend a languid time on deck, awaiting the glimpse of land. The speaker himself refuses to get drawn into the spell and spends his t... | [
"I CAN never forget the eighteen or twenty days during which the light\ntrade-winds were silently sweeping us towards the islands. In pursuit of\nthe sperm whale, we had been cruising on the line some twenty degrees\nto the westward of the Gallipagos; and all that we had to do, when our\ncourse was determined on, w... |
2,922 | 45_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The story begins by describing where Mrs. Rachel Lynde's home is located in a town called Avonlea. Mrs. Rachel likes to watch people going by outside her window so that she knows everything going on in Avonlea. Whenever she sees something that she finds odd, she always tries to figure out what is going on. One afternoo... | [
"|MRS. Rachel Lynde lived just where the Avonlea main road dipped down\ninto a little hollow, fringed with alders and ladies' eardrops and\ntraversed by a brook that had its source away back in the woods of the\nold Cuthbert place; it was reputed to be an intricate, headlong brook\nin its earlier course through tho... |
2,923 | 45_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Matthew Cuthbert enjoys the ride to the train station, except for when he comes across women and has to nod at them--he is extremely shy around women besides his sister Marilla and Mrs. Rachel. When Matthew reaches the station, there is no train there and nobody on the platform except a young girl. Matthew asks the sta... | [
"|MATTHEW Cuthbert and the sorrel mare jogged comfortably over the eight\nmiles to Bright River. It was a pretty road, running along between\nsnug farmsteads, with now and again a bit of balsamy fir wood to drive\nthrough or a hollow where wild plums hung out their filmy bloom. The air\nwas sweet with the breath of... |
2,924 | 45_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Marilla is shocked when she finds Matthew has brought home a little girl instead of a little boy. While Marilla and Matthew argue over how this mistake could have happened, the little girl realizes what is happening and begins to cry. Marilla tries to persuade the girl not to cry, and the girl's effusive response cause... | [
"|MARILLA came briskly forward as Matthew opened the door. But when her\neyes fell on the odd little figure in the stiff, ugly dress, with the\nlong braids of red hair and the eager, luminous eyes, she stopped short\nin amazement.",
"\"Matthew Cuthbert, who's that?\" she ejaculated. \"Where is the boy?\"",
"\"T... |
2,925 | 45_chapter_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Anne wakes up feeling a little better than the night before. She spends the early morning looking out the window of the east gable at the beautiful nature outside. Marilla comes to the bedroom and tells Anne to wash up, get dressed, and come downstairs for breakfast. Anne tries her best to look nice and leave the room ... | [
"|IT was broad daylight when Anne awoke and sat up in bed, staring\nconfusedly at the window through which a flood of cheery sunshine was\npouring and outside of which something white and feathery waved across\nglimpses of blue sky.",
"For a moment she could not remember where she was. First came a\ndelightful th... |
2,926 | 45_chapter_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | On the way to Mrs. Spencer's house, Marilla asks Anne to tell her about her childhood. Anne tells Marilla that she is eleven years old and originally from Bolingbroke, Nova Scotia. Her mother and father were both teachers. When they had Anne, they were "a pair of babies and as poor as church mice". Anne's mother and fa... | [
"|DO you know,\" said Anne confidentially, \"I've made up my mind to enjoy\nthis drive. It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy\nthings if you make up your mind firmly that you will. Of course, you\nmust make it up _firmly_. I am not going to think about going back to\nthe asylum while we're having... |
2,927 | 45_chapter_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Marilla and Anne arrive at Mrs. Spencer's house, to the surprise of Mrs. Spencer. When asked about the mix-up, Mrs. Spencer says that she was told the Cuthberts wanted a girl by the person who passed along Marilla's message. Mrs. Spencer tells Marilla that if she doesn't want to keep Anne, another woman named Mrs. Pete... | [
"|GET there they did, however, in due season. Mrs. Spencer lived in a big\nyellow house at White Sands Cove, and she came to the door with surprise\nand welcome mingled on her benevolent face.",
"\"Dear, dear,\" she exclaimed, \"you're the last folks I was looking for\ntoday, but I'm real glad to see you. You'll ... |
2,928 | 45_chapter_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | When it is time for Anne to go to bed, Marilla instructs Anne to say her prayers. Anne says that she never says prayers. Anne says that she knows about Christianity from the orphan asylum's Sunday school, but she has never liked God because she believes God gave her red hair on purpose. Marilla tells Anne that she must... | [
"|WHEN Marilla took Anne up to bed that night she said stiffly:",
"\"Now, Anne, I noticed last night that you threw your clothes all about\nthe floor when you took them off. That is a very untidy habit, and I\ncan't allow it at all. As soon as you take off any article of clothing\nfold it neatly and place it on t... |
2,929 | 45_chapter_8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The next day, Marilla keeps Anne busy with tasks all morning. After lunch, Anne begs Marilla to tell her whether she will get to stay at Green Gables. Marilla tells Anne that she can stay, and Anne begins to cry tears of joy. Anne would like to start calling her new guardian Aunt Marilla, but she is told to just call h... | [
"|FOR reasons best known to herself, Marilla did not tell Anne that\nshe was to stay at Green Gables until the next afternoon. During the\nforenoon she kept the child busy with various tasks and watched over her\nwith a keen eye while she did them. By noon she had concluded that Anne\nwas smart and obedient, willin... |
2,930 | 45_chapter_9 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | After Anne has lived at Green Gables for a fortnight, Mrs. Rachel Lynde comes over to see what she is like. When she arrives, Anne is playing outside. Mrs. Rachel and Lynde talk for a little while. Mrs. Rachel still thinks it is a bad idea to keep an orphan girl in one's home, to which Marilla responds that Anne is alr... | [
"|ANNE had been a fortnight at Green Gables before Mrs. Lynde arrived to\ninspect her. Mrs. Rachel, to do her justice, was not to blame for this.\nA severe and unseasonable attack of grippe had confined that good lady\nto her house ever since the occasion of her last visit to Green Gables.\nMrs. Rachel was not ofte... |
2,931 | 45_chapter_10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The next morning, Anne still has not assented to apologize to Mrs. Rachel. Marilla keeps Anne in her room all day, bringing food up to her room for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Matthew notices that Anne does not seem to be eating much of the food, so he decides to go up and talk to her. He tells Anne that she should a... | [
"|MARILLA said nothing to Matthew about the affair that evening; but when\nAnne proved still refractory the next morning an explanation had to be\nmade to account for her absence from the breakfast table. Marilla told\nMatthew the whole story, taking pains to impress him with a due sense of\nthe enormity of Anne's ... |
2,932 | 45_chapter_11 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Marilla has sewn Anne three new dresses, which Anne does not like because they are so plain. Anne particularly wishes that they had puffed sleeves, which are fashionable. Anne decides she will imagine that the dresses look the way she wants them to. The next morning, it is time for Anne to go to Sunday school for the f... | [
"|WELL, how do you like them?\" said Marilla.",
"Anne was standing in the gable room, looking solemnly at three new\ndresses spread out on the bed. One was of snuffy colored gingham which\nMarilla had been tempted to buy from a peddler the preceding summer\nbecause it looked so serviceable; one was of black-and-w... |
2,933 | 45_chapter_12 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | It is a week before Marilla finds out that Anne went to church with a flower garland on her hat. Marilla tells Anne that she should never do that again and that many people have been saying it reflects poorly on Marilla. Anne's eyes fill with tears and she tells Marilla that she should send her back to the orphan asylu... | [
"|IT was not until the next Friday that Marilla heard the story of the\nflower-wreathed hat. She came home from Mrs. Lynde's and called Anne to\naccount.",
"\"Anne, Mrs. Rachel says you went to church last Sunday with your hat\nrigged out ridiculous with roses and buttercups. What on earth put you\nup to such a c... |
2,934 | 45_chapter_13 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In August, Anne excitedly tells Marilla that the Sunday School is planning a picnic. Anne is especially excited that there will be ice cream, which she has never tasted. Marilla tells Anne to work on her patchwork until teatime, which Anne does grumpily. Anne tells Marilla about how she and Diana have created a pretend... | [
"|IT'S time Anne was in to do her sewing,\" said Marilla, glancing at the\nclock and then out into the yellow August afternoon where everything\ndrowsed in the heat. \"She stayed playing with Diana more than half an\nhour more 'n I gave her leave to; and now she's perched out there on\nthe woodpile talking to Matth... |
2,935 | 45_chapter_14 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | One evening a few days before the picnic, Marilla asks Anne whether she has seen her amethyst brooch. Anne says that she did see it earlier that day and tried it on, but she put it back on the bureau afterward. Marilla looks for the brooch again and, unable to find it, thinks that Anne is lying about putting it back. S... | [
"|ON the Monday evening before the picnic Marilla came down from her room\nwith a troubled face.",
"\"Anne,\" she said to that small personage, who was shelling peas by the\nspotless table and singing, \"Nelly of the Hazel Dell\" with a vigor and\nexpression that did credit to Diana's teaching, \"did you see anyt... |
2,936 | 45_chapter_15 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Weeks have passed and school has begun. Anne and Diana walk to school together every day down beautiful roads with trees and flowers all around. At the school in Avonlea, there are students in many grades, from children Anne's age through teenagers studying for entrance exams to Queen's teacher's college. Anne has a go... | [
"|WHAT a splendid day!\" said Anne, drawing a long breath. \"Isn't it good\njust to be alive on a day like this? I pity the people who aren't born\nyet for missing it. They may have good days, of course, but they can\nnever have this one. And it's splendider still to have such a lovely way\nto go to school by, isn'... |
2,937 | 45_chapter_16 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | One day in October, Marilla tells Anne that she can have Diana over for tea, just the two of them. Anne is very excited because she finds this to be a mature responsibility. Marilla tells Anne that she can serve Diana raspberry cordial from the pantry along with some fruit and pastries. When Diana arrives, both girls a... | [
"|OCTOBER was a beautiful month at Green Gables, when the birches in the\nhollow turned as golden as sunshine and the maples behind the orchard\nwere royal crimson and the wild cherry trees along the lane put on the\nloveliest shades of dark red and bronzy green, while the fields sunned\nthemselves in aftermaths.",... |
2,938 | 45_chapter_17 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The next day, Diana comes to Green Gables to say goodbye to Anne. They profess love to one another and Anne takes a lock of Diana's hair to remember her by. They promise that even though they will have to act like strangers, they will be friends forever. The day after that, Anne comes down in the morning with her schoo... | [
"|THE next afternoon Anne, bending over her patchwork at the kitchen\nwindow, happened to glance out and beheld Diana down by the Dryad's\nBubble beckoning mysteriously. In a trice Anne was out of the house\nand flying down to the hollow, astonishment and hope struggling in\nher expressive eyes. But the hope faded ... |
2,939 | 45_chapter_18 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In January, the Canadian Premier comes to Charlottetown, a city near Avonlea. Most of the adults in Avonlea--including Marilla, Mrs. Rachel, and Mr. and Mrs. Barry--go to see him speak. Anne and Matthew choose to stay home. They sit by the fire talking about geometry, politics, and courting. Suddenly, Diana bursts in t... | [
"|ALL things great are wound up with all things little. At first glance\nit might not seem that the decision of a certain Canadian Premier to\ninclude Prince Edward Island in a political tour could have much or\nanything to do with the fortunes of little Anne Shirley at Green Gables.\nBut it had.",
"It was a Janu... |
2,940 | 45_chapter_19 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | One evening, Anne asks Marilla whether she can go to Diana's house. Anne knows that Diana has something to tell her because they have devised a system of signals by placing candles on their window sills. Marilla lets Anne go to Diana's house for ten minutes, and Anne comes back with the news: it is Diana's birthday the... | [
"|MARILLA, can I go over to see Diana just for a minute?\" asked Anne,\nrunning breathlessly down from the east gable one February evening.",
"\"I don't see what you want to be traipsing about after dark for,\" said\nMarilla shortly. \"You and Diana walked home from school together and\nthen stood down there in t... |
2,941 | 45_chapter_20 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Spring begins and Anne is entranced by the beautiful flowers blooming in Avonlea. Soon, it is June, and Anne asks Marilla one night if she knows what it is the anniversary of. Marilla doesn't remember, so Anne tells her: it has been one year since Anne came to Green Gables. Marilla does not make a big fuss over this, b... | [
"|SPRING had come once more to Green Gables--the beautiful capricious,\nreluctant Canadian spring, lingering along through April and May in a\nsuccession of sweet, fresh, chilly days, with pink sunsets and miracles\nof resurrection and growth. The maples in Lover's Lane were red budded\nand little curly ferns pushe... |
2,942 | 45_chapter_21 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The school year ends; Anne and many of her classmates weep to see their teacher leave, even though they didn't like him very much. However, Anne says that she isn't too sad because now she has two months of summer vacation--and she got to see the new, young minister of Avonlea and his pretty wife. Many candidates for t... | [
"|DEAR ME, there is nothing but meetings and partings in this world, as\nMrs. Lynde says,\" remarked Anne plaintively, putting her slate and books\ndown on the kitchen table on the last day of June and wiping her red\neyes with a very damp handkerchief. \"Wasn't it fortunate, Marilla, that\nI took an extra handkerc... |
2,943 | 45_chapter_22 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | One day over the summer, Anne is very excited to find that Mrs. Allan has sent her an invitation to come over for tea. Marilla worries that Anne's emotions are too strong--both the positive and negative emotions. Anne is anxious that it might rain the next day and she won't be able to go to tea, but the weather is fine... | [
"|AND what are your eyes popping out of your head about. Now?\" asked\nMarilla, when Anne had just come in from a run to the post office. \"Have\nyou discovered another kindred spirit?\" Excitement hung around Anne like\na garment, shone in her eyes, kindled in every feature. She had come\ndancing up the lane, like... |
2,944 | 45_chapter_23 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | A week later, Diana throws a party at her house and invites some of the girls from the Avonlea school, including Anne. After having tea, the girls begin daring one another, which is a very popular activity with the children their age in Avonlea. The dares start off relatively easy, with one girl climbing a caterpillar-... | [
"|ANNE had to live through more than two weeks, as it happened. Almost a\nmonth having elapsed since the liniment cake episode, it was high time\nfor her to get into fresh trouble of some sort, little mistakes, such as\nabsentmindedly emptying a pan of skim milk into a basket of yarn balls\nin the pantry instead of... |
2,945 | 45_chapter_24 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In October, Anne's ankle is fully healed, and she goes back to school. Anne loves the new teacher, Miss Stacy, who has the students learn recitations, write compositions, do "physical culture exercises" daily, and learn about nature outdoors on some afternoons. As fall turns to winter, Miss Stacy announces that the stu... | [
"|IT was October again when Anne was ready to go back to school--a\nglorious October, all red and gold, with mellow mornings when the\nvalleys were filled with delicate mists as if the spirit of autumn had\npoured them in for the sun to drain--amethyst, pearl, silver, rose, and\nsmoke-blue. The dews were so heavy t... |
2,946 | 45_chapter_25 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | One day, when the Christmas concert is drawing near, Matthew sees Anne and her friends rehearsing and has a sudden thought that Anne looks different from the other girls. He first thinks it's something about her delicate, lively facial features, but after pondering it for a few hours, he realizes that Anne is not dress... | [
"|MATTHEW was having a bad ten minutes of it. He had come into the\nkitchen, in the twilight of a cold, gray December evening, and had sat\ndown in the woodbox corner to take off his heavy boots, unconscious of\nthe fact that Anne and a bevy of her schoolmates were having a practice\nof \"The Fairy Queen\" in the s... |
2,947 | 45_chapter_26 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | After the Christmas concert, Anne finds it hard to get back to normal, boring school days. However, as the winter progresses, things do go back to normal, and soon, it is March and time for Anne's birthday. Anne feels very grown-up because she is thirteen, meaning that she is now a teenager. Anne tells Diana on a walk ... | [
"|JUNIOR Avonlea found it hard to settle down to humdrum existence\nagain. To Anne in particular things seemed fearfully flat, stale, and\nunprofitable after the goblet of excitement she had been sipping for\nweeks. Could she go back to the former quiet pleasures of those faraway\ndays before the concert? At first,... |
2,948 | 45_chapter_27 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Spring comes to Avonlea once again and even Marilla finds herself getting excited as she walks home from an Aid meeting. She thinks happily that it is so much nicer to come home to Anne than to an empty house, but when she arrives at home, she sees Anne is nowhere to be found. Marilla waits until dark for Anne to come ... | [
"Marilla, walking home one late April evening from an Aid meeting,\nrealized that the winter was over and gone with the thrill of delight\nthat spring never fails to bring to the oldest and saddest as well as to\nthe youngest and merriest. Marilla was not given to subjective analysis\nof her thoughts and feelings. ... |
2,949 | 45_chapter_28 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Anne, Diana, and a few friends from school are playing by a pond a few months later. Anne's hair has grown out into beautiful auburn curls all over her head. The girls are assigning roles to act out a poem they read recently in class. Anne is assigned to be the main character, Elaine. In the poem, Elaine dies and is se... | [
"|OF course you must be Elaine, Anne,\" said Diana. \"I could never have\nthe courage to float down there.\"",
"\"Nor I,\" said Ruby Gillis, with a shiver. \"I don't mind floating down\nwhen there's two or three of us in the flat and we can sit up. It's fun\nthen. But to lie down and pretend I was dead--I just co... |
2,950 | 45_chapter_29 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | It is fall again in Avonlea, and Anne is bringing cows back to Green Gables when she sees Diana walking toward her. Diana has good news: Aunt Josephine has invited both Diana and Anne to visit her in Charlottetown and see the Exhibition. Anne thinks that Marilla will say she can't go, but Diana says she will have her m... | [
"|ANNE was bringing the cows home from the back pasture by way of Lover's\nLane. It was a September evening and all the gaps and clearings in the\nwoods were brimmed up with ruby sunset light. Here and there the lane\nwas splashed with it, but for the most part it was already quite shadowy\nbeneath the maples, and ... |
2,951 | 45_chapter_30 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | One evening in November, Marilla tells Anne that Miss Stacy has come over to talk to her. Anne chatters for a long time without letting Marilla tell her what Miss Stacy came to talk about. When Marilla says that Miss Stacy came to talk about Anne, Anne gets flustered and confesses to reading a novel during Miss Stacy's... | [
"|MARILLA laid her knitting on her lap and leaned back in her chair. Her\neyes were tired, and she thought vaguely that she must see about having\nher glasses changed the next time she went to town, for her eyes had\ngrown tired very often of late.",
"It was nearly dark, for the full November twilight had fallen ... |
2,952 | 45_chapter_31 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Marilla let Anne avoid studies and spend time outside with Diana all summer because the doctor said that Anne needed open air. When September came, Anne was refreshed and eager to return to her studies. As Anne takes her school books down from the attic, she and Marilla discuss why women can't be ministers and how Anne... | [
"|ANNE had her \"good\" summer and enjoyed it wholeheartedly. She and Diana\nfairly lived outdoors, reveling in all the delights that Lover's Lane\nand the Dryad's Bubble and Willowmere and Victoria Island afforded.\nMarilla offered no objections to Anne's gypsyings. The Spencervale\ndoctor who had come the night M... |
2,953 | 45_chapter_32 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In June, the school year ends again. Anne and Diana walk home together and cry over Miss Stacy leaving. Anne will be leaving soon to take the entrance exams, which will be proctored in Charlottetown. Diana's Aunt Josephine has invited Anne to stay in her house during her trip. Anne promises Diana that she will send her... | [
"|WITH the end of June came the close of the term and the close of Miss\nStacy's rule in Avonlea school. Anne and Diana walked home that\nevening feeling very sober indeed. Red eyes and damp handkerchiefs bore\nconvincing testimony to the fact that Miss Stacy's farewell words must\nhave been quite as touching as Mr... |
2,954 | 45_chapter_33 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Anne and Diana get ready together for a concert at a hotel in Charlottetown. Anne is the only student from the Avonlea school who has been chosen to perform, and Diana instructs her on how to dress and style her hair for the occasion. Marilla comes to Anne's room and praises Anne as well, though she mixes in criticisms... | [
"|PUT on your white organdy, by all means, Anne,\" advised Diana\ndecidedly.",
"They were together in the east gable chamber; outside it was only\ntwilight--a lovely yellowish-green twilight with a clear-blue cloudless\nsky. A big round moon, slowly deepening from her pallid luster into\nburnished silver, hung ov... |
2,955 | 45_chapter_34 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Over the next three weeks, Anne prepares to go to Queen's. Marilla and Matthew make sure that Anne has multiple new dresses, including one of delicate green material that Marilla chooses particularly thoughtfully. When the green dress has been made, Anne puts it on and performs a recitation for Marilla and Matthew. Mar... | [
"|THE next three weeks were busy ones at Green Gables, for Anne was\ngetting ready to go to Queen's, and there was much sewing to be done,\nand many things to be talked over and arranged. Anne's outfit was\nample and pretty, for Matthew saw to that, and Marilla for once made\nno objections whatever to anything he p... |
2,956 | 45_chapter_35 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Throughout the fall, Anne studies at Queen's during the week and returns to Avonlea on the weekends. On the return trip to Avonlea, Anne notices that Gilbert always walks with Ruby and carries her bag, and she thinks to herself that it would be nice to be friends with Gilbert. The narrator notes that Anne had many fema... | [
"|ANNE'S homesickness wore off, greatly helped in the wearing by her\nweekend visits home. As long as the open weather lasted the Avonlea\nstudents went out to Carmody on the new branch railway every Friday\nnight. Diana and several other Avonlea young folks were generally on\nhand to meet them and they all walked ... |
2,957 | 45_chapter_36 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Anne and Jane walk together to find out the results of their end-of-year exams. As they walk up, Anne hears someone shout that Gilbert won the medal. Anne feels defeated for a moment--until someone sees her and yells, "Three cheers for Miss Shirley, winner of the Avery. Anne won the scholarship to attend college. The n... | [
"|ON the morning when the final results of all the examinations were to be\nposted on the bulletin board at Queen's, Anne and Jane walked down the\nstreet together. Jane was smiling and happy; examinations were over\nand she was comfortably sure she had made a pass at least; further\nconsiderations troubled Jane no... |
2,958 | 45_chapter_37 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | One day, Matthew falls down suddenly. Marilla and Anne try to rouse Matthew as their hired man goes to get the doctor. However, Mrs. Rachel Lynde arrives at the house first; after taking Matthew's pulse, she says he is dead. When the doctor arrives, he confirms that Matthew has died and says it was likely an instantane... | [
"|MATTHEW--Matthew--what is the matter? Matthew, are you sick?\"",
"It was Marilla who spoke, alarm in every jerky word. Anne came through\nthe hall, her hands full of white narcissus,--it was long before Anne\ncould love the sight or odor of white narcissus again,--in time to hear\nher and to see Matthew standin... |
2,959 | 45_chapter_38 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Marilla comes home in a dejected state from having her eyes checked. The oculist told her that she could go blind in as little as six months; to keep her vision for longer than that, she would have to give up reading and sewing. Anne tries to get Marilla's hopes up about maintaining her vision and reducing her headache... | [
"|MARILLA went to town the next day and returned in the evening. Anne had\ngone over to Orchard Slope with Diana and came back to find Marilla in\nthe kitchen, sitting by the table with her head leaning on her hand.\nSomething in her dejected attitude struck a chill to Anne's heart. She\nhad never seen Marilla sit ... |
2,922 | 45_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The first scene of the story opens on Mrs. Rachel Lynde, a housewife in the town of Avonlea who everyone knows...and who knows everyone. We're told that Mrs. Rachel Lynde is kind of the ultimate gossip. Her kitchen window looks out onto the only main road in the town of Avonlea, so she sees everyone who enters or leave... | [
"|MRS. Rachel Lynde lived just where the Avonlea main road dipped down\ninto a little hollow, fringed with alders and ladies' eardrops and\ntraversed by a brook that had its source away back in the woods of the\nold Cuthbert place; it was reputed to be an intricate, headlong brook\nin its earlier course through tho... |
2,923 | 45_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | As Matthew drives to the train station at Bright River, readers learn about his shyness. Which is pretty extreme. He's afraid of all women who aren't Marilla and Mrs. Rachel Lynde because he feels like they're secretly laughing at them. There's no one at the station except a little girl. Matthew figures he must be earl... | [
"|MATTHEW Cuthbert and the sorrel mare jogged comfortably over the eight\nmiles to Bright River. It was a pretty road, running along between\nsnug farmsteads, with now and again a bit of balsamy fir wood to drive\nthrough or a hollow where wild plums hung out their filmy bloom. The air\nwas sweet with the breath of... |
2,924 | 45_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The chapter title takes place right away, once the girl walks into the house. As Matthew explains to Marilla why he didn't bring a boy home, the girl realizes she isn't wanted and bursts into tears. Marilla asks her name. She says she wants to be called Cordelia, but when pressed, reveals that her name is Anne Shirley.... | [
"|MARILLA came briskly forward as Matthew opened the door. But when her\neyes fell on the odd little figure in the stiff, ugly dress, with the\nlong braids of red hair and the eager, luminous eyes, she stopped short\nin amazement.",
"\"Matthew Cuthbert, who's that?\" she ejaculated. \"Where is the boy?\"",
"\"T... |
2,925 | 45_chapter_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Anne wakes up and takes in the sights from her window: a large cherry tree, a garden, a clover-filled field, a brook, barns, fields, and a glimpse of the sea. No wonder she wants to stay. She's also in a better mood. As Marilla comes in to wake her and they have breakfast, she tells Marilla that she's glad there's a br... | [
"|IT was broad daylight when Anne awoke and sat up in bed, staring\nconfusedly at the window through which a flood of cheery sunshine was\npouring and outside of which something white and feathery waved across\nglimpses of blue sky.",
"For a moment she could not remember where she was. First came a\ndelightful th... |
2,926 | 45_chapter_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Anne tells Marilla she's made up her mind to enjoy the drive and immediately starts talking about names again. They're driving down The Shore Road, a name Anne's okay with. She likes White Sands too, but the name she's really into is Avonlea. She thinks it sounds like music. Marilla tells Anne that since she's determin... | [
"|DO you know,\" said Anne confidentially, \"I've made up my mind to enjoy\nthis drive. It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy\nthings if you make up your mind firmly that you will. Of course, you\nmust make it up _firmly_. I am not going to think about going back to\nthe asylum while we're having... |
2,927 | 45_chapter_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | When Marilla explains their predicament to Mrs. Spencer, Mrs. Spencer suggests that they give Anne to a woman named Mrs. Blewett, who needs help taking care of her children. Marilla's not so sure. Mrs. Blewett has a reputation for being mean and stingy. Her ex-servants have spread stories about her temper. Not a good s... | [
"|GET there they did, however, in due season. Mrs. Spencer lived in a big\nyellow house at White Sands Cove, and she came to the door with surprise\nand welcome mingled on her benevolent face.",
"\"Dear, dear,\" she exclaimed, \"you're the last folks I was looking for\ntoday, but I'm real glad to see you. You'll ... |
2,928 | 45_chapter_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | That night, Marilla instructs Anne on how to act at bedtime, i.e. fold her clothes and say her prayers. Anne tells Marilla that she never says her prayers. Marilla Cuthbert is, once again, surprised. Anne goes on to explain that she knows who God is but ever since Mrs. Thomas told her God made her hair red on purpose, ... | [
"|WHEN Marilla took Anne up to bed that night she said stiffly:",
"\"Now, Anne, I noticed last night that you threw your clothes all about\nthe floor when you took them off. That is a very untidy habit, and I\ncan't allow it at all. As soon as you take off any article of clothing\nfold it neatly and place it on t... |
2,929 | 45_chapter_8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Anne makes it through morning chores without Marilla revealing her fate, but finally decides it would be easier to know than wonder, and asks Marilla whether she's decided if she can say. When Marilla says yes, Anne's so happy she cries. But Marilla isn't the sentimental type, and tells Anne she cries and laughs too ea... | [
"|FOR reasons best known to herself, Marilla did not tell Anne that\nshe was to stay at Green Gables until the next afternoon. During the\nforenoon she kept the child busy with various tasks and watched over her\nwith a keen eye while she did them. By noon she had concluded that Anne\nwas smart and obedient, willin... |
2,930 | 45_chapter_9 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Back to Mrs. Rachel Lynde. Remember her? The town gossip? We're told that the only reason she hasn't visited sooner to see Anne is that she's been ill until now. So Mrs. Rachel Lynde arrives at Green Gables, and after describing her illness to Marilla in great detail, she brings up Anne. And even before seeing her, Mrs... | [
"|ANNE had been a fortnight at Green Gables before Mrs. Lynde arrived to\ninspect her. Mrs. Rachel, to do her justice, was not to blame for this.\nA severe and unseasonable attack of grippe had confined that good lady\nto her house ever since the occasion of her last visit to Green Gables.\nMrs. Rachel was not ofte... |
2,931 | 45_chapter_10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The standoff continues. Anne spends an entire day in her room, unwilling to apologize. Seeing her supper tray return mostly untouched, Matthew sneaks into Anne's room and asks her to give in. Anne agrees, saying she'd do anything for Matthew. Anne tells Marilla she's ready, much to Marilla's relief. Marilla walks her t... | [
"|MARILLA said nothing to Matthew about the affair that evening; but when\nAnne proved still refractory the next morning an explanation had to be\nmade to account for her absence from the breakfast table. Marilla told\nMatthew the whole story, taking pains to impress him with a due sense of\nthe enormity of Anne's ... |
2,932 | 45_chapter_11 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Marilla has made some clothes for Anne. But unfortunately for Anne, they're very plain. The best thing Anne can think to say about them is that she will imagine that she likes them. Anne tells Marilla she was hoping for a dress with puffed sleeves. Puffed sleeves = trendy in the mid- to late-1800's . Marilla thinks Ann... | [
"|WELL, how do you like them?\" said Marilla.",
"Anne was standing in the gable room, looking solemnly at three new\ndresses spread out on the bed. One was of snuffy colored gingham which\nMarilla had been tempted to buy from a peddler the preceding summer\nbecause it looked so serviceable; one was of black-and-w... |
2,933 | 45_chapter_12 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Marilla hears about Anne's flower crown at church and scolds Anne about it. Anne's upset because she had no idea that would have made Marilla mad. Marilla takes Anne next door to visit a girl her age, Diana Barry. Anne's nervous Diana won't like her but Marilla says it's Diana's strict mother that Anne should be worrie... | [
"|IT was not until the next Friday that Marilla heard the story of the\nflower-wreathed hat. She came home from Mrs. Lynde's and called Anne to\naccount.",
"\"Anne, Mrs. Rachel says you went to church last Sunday with your hat\nrigged out ridiculous with roses and buttercups. What on earth put you\nup to such a c... |
2,934 | 45_chapter_13 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Late for her sewing, Anne runs into the house one afternoon to tell Marilla about an upcoming Sunday school picnic. Anne describes the picnic like it's going to be the best party in the world. Oh, and there's going to be ice cream there, which Anne's never had before. Marilla agrees to let her go and promises to bake h... | [
"|IT'S time Anne was in to do her sewing,\" said Marilla, glancing at the\nclock and then out into the yellow August afternoon where everything\ndrowsed in the heat. \"She stayed playing with Diana more than half an\nhour more 'n I gave her leave to; and now she's perched out there on\nthe woodpile talking to Matth... |
2,935 | 45_chapter_14 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Anne is shelling peas when Marilla walks in and asks if Anne took her amethyst brooch. Anne admits to trying it on, but she says she returned it to Marilla's bureau afterward. Marilla re-checks the bureau and her whole bedroom, but no brooch. So she returns to Anne and accuses her of lying. Anne refuses to confess, so ... | [
"|ON the Monday evening before the picnic Marilla came down from her room\nwith a troubled face.",
"\"Anne,\" she said to that small personage, who was shelling peas by the\nspotless table and singing, \"Nelly of the Hazel Dell\" with a vigor and\nexpression that did credit to Diana's teaching, \"did you see anyt... |
2,936 | 45_chapter_15 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Notice that this chapter title is a little less clear than the rest. It's a reference to the idiom "a tempest in a teapot" which means making a big deal over something small. Anne's first day of school goes well. Afterwards, she tells Marilla about it in her long-winded way--how she's only on the fourth reader while th... | [
"|WHAT a splendid day!\" said Anne, drawing a long breath. \"Isn't it good\njust to be alive on a day like this? I pity the people who aren't born\nyet for missing it. They may have good days, of course, but they can\nnever have this one. And it's splendider still to have such a lovely way\nto go to school by, isn'... |
2,937 | 45_chapter_16 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Marilla has a ladies meeting one afternoon, so she tells Anne she can invite Diana over for tea. Anne's really stoked to do this, since hosting a tea seems like a grown-up activity. Marilla tells Anne they can have a bottle of raspberry cordial--which is kept on the second shelf of the pantry--and a cookie each. Diana ... | [
"|OCTOBER was a beautiful month at Green Gables, when the birches in the\nhollow turned as golden as sunshine and the maples behind the orchard\nwere royal crimson and the wild cherry trees along the lane put on the\nloveliest shades of dark red and bronzy green, while the fields sunned\nthemselves in aftermaths.",... |
2,938 | 45_chapter_17 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Diana beckons to Anne from the window. Anne rushes out to meet her, but it turns out Diana's mother hasn't relented. Diana only wants to say goodbye. They say a tearful, extremely poetic farewell. Diana says she loves her, which Anne has never heard before. Anne cuts a lock of Diana's hair to remember her by. Anne deci... | [
"|THE next afternoon Anne, bending over her patchwork at the kitchen\nwindow, happened to glance out and beheld Diana down by the Dryad's\nBubble beckoning mysteriously. In a trice Anne was out of the house\nand flying down to the hollow, astonishment and hope struggling in\nher expressive eyes. But the hope faded ... |
2,939 | 45_chapter_18 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Premier is coming to a nearby town, and pretty much all the adults in Avonlea go to see him speak. Marilla goes, leaving Anne alone with Matthew in the evening. Anne and Matthew have a good chat about how geometry's hard, and about politics. Matthew says he's a Conservative and Anne decides she's a Conservative by ... | [
"|ALL things great are wound up with all things little. At first glance\nit might not seem that the decision of a certain Canadian Premier to\ninclude Prince Edward Island in a political tour could have much or\nanything to do with the fortunes of little Anne Shirley at Green Gables.\nBut it had.",
"It was a Janu... |
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