Sunday, September 28, 2008

Journal Entry # 22

" and the teacher instantly and sharply inflicted on her neck a dozen strokes with the bunch of twigs. Not a tear rose from Burns' eye; and while i paused from my sowing, becuase my fingers quivered at this spectical with sentiment of unavialing and impotent anger, not a feature of her pensive face altered its ordinary expression." "Hardened girl!" explaimed Miss Scatcherd. Page 56.

- Helen is a person who can take it so that the rest of the girls can learn from her example. she takes the pain of her punishment with out a tear or a flinch and all that. she simply takes it because she knows that in the end it is ment to better her and her teachers punished her harshly because they thought the best of her and thought that she culd be great. knowing this helps her be able to take the punishment that gets doled out her direction.

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