5D+Tuck+Chapter+10

=__Sentences to help with understanding:__ =


 * 1.** **Under the __pitiless__ double assaults of her mother and grandmother, the cottage where she lived was always squeaking clean, mopped and swept and __scoured__ into __limp submission__. (p. 50)** //The women had cleaned the cottage so thoroughly that it had given up being dirty.//
 * 2. The Foster women __had made a fortress out of duty__. Within it, they were __indomitable__. (p. 50)** //The women had created an environment in the house where chores had to be finished no matter what and they were unbeatable in that environment.//
 * 3. So she was unprepared for the homely little house beside the pond, unprepared for the gentle __eddies__ of dust, the silver cobwebs, the mouse who lived -- __and welcome to him!__ -- in a table drawer.** **(p. 50)** //The house had swirls of dust in it and the mouse that lived in the drawer was welcomed by the Tucks.//
 * 4. The kitchen came first, with an open cabinet where dishes were stacked in __perilous__ towers __without the least regard for their varying dimensions.__** **(p. 50)** //The dishes were stacked in unstable towers without any regard for their different shapes.//
 * 5. There was an enormous black stove, and a metal sink, and every surface, every wall, was piled and __strewn__ and hung with everything imaginable, from onions to lanterns to wooden spoons to washtubs.** **(p. 51)** //Strewn means "scattered about."//
 * 6. The __parlor__ came next, where __the furniture, loose and sloping with age__, was set about __helter-skelter__. An ancient green-plush sofa __lolled__ alone in the center like yet another mossy fallen log, facing a soot-streaked fireplace still deep in last winter's ashes.** **(p. 51)** //The living room was full of old, worn-out furniture that was scattered about.//
 * 7. Beyond this was the bedroom, where __a vast and tipsy brass bed__ took up most of the space, but there was room beside it for the __washstand__ with the lonely mirror, and opposite its foot __a cavernous oak wardrobe__ from which leaked the faint smell of __camphor__.** **(p. 51)** //There was a giant, unstable brass bed in the bedroom. Beside it was a washstand, which is an old-fashioned sink with a sad mirror. At the end of the bed there was a large, empty wooden closet that smelled something like cedar.//
 * 8. ... the arms of the sofa webbed with strands of thread and dangerous with needles.** **(p. 52)** //Mae had left her needles and thread on the arms of the sofa. The needles were sticking out of the arm dangerously.//
 * 9. "We make things to sell," said Mae, __surveying__ the mess approvingly.** **(p. 52)** //She was scanning the room with a happy// look on her face.
 * 10. And still this was not all. For, on the old beamed ceiling of the parlor, streaks of light swam and danced and wavered like a bright __mirage__, reflected through the windows from the sunlit surface of the pond.** **(p. 52)** //The reflection of light looked like an illusion.//
 * 11. And over everything was the clean, sweet smell of the water and its weeds, the chatter of a swooping kingfisher, the __carol and trill__ of other kinds of bird, and occasionally the thrilling bass note of __an unastonished bullfrog__ at ease somewhere along the muddy banks.** **(p. 52)**
 * 12. And this was followed by another thought, far more __revolutionary__: "Maybe they just don't care!"** **(p. 53)**
 * 13 "The boys don't be home very much," said Mae as they came up __into the half light of the loft__.** **(p. 53)**
 * 14. "For goodness' sake, Ma," said Jesse, __emerging__ from the stairwell.** **(p. 55)**

=__Vocabulary__: aimlessly **(p. 51)**, cluttered **(p. 53)**, disarray **(p. 52)**, hastily **(p. 55)**=

=__Question # 1:__ How does Babbitt describe the Tuck home? How does that differ from Winnie's home? Your home? Write a complete paragraph. Please incorporate some quotes from the book.=

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