Chapter
4: Rulers of Terabithia
Word
Meanings
1.
tingly – prickly
2.
yellow – bellied – scared
3.
ridiculous -
silly/absurd
4.
rumpus – disturbance/ commotion
5.
contempt – scorn/hatred
6.
scowl – frown
7.
pervert – spoil/distort
8.
siege – barrier
9.
tyrant – rude person
10. exhilaration
– excitement/ happiness
Chapter 4: Rulers of Terabithia
Summary
Leslie continued to join the races at recess, and each day
she won. Enthusiasm for the races began to die down as the boys lost always
with Leslie. Jess and Leslie became good friends. Jess learnt a lot about
Leslie. Leslie was from an affluent town Arlington with a good school district.
Jess was surprised to know that her parents moved to reassess their value
structure, meaning that they decided to move as they were too hooked on to
money and success, so they bought that old farm and they had decided to farm
it.
One day in school, Miss Myers read aloud an
essay that Leslie had written on scuba diving. It was a vivid (clear)
description of the underwater world. After the essay had been read, Miss Myers
announced that there was to be a special show on Jacques Cousteau on television
that night, and she asked the class to watch the show and write a one-page
essay about it. Leslie reluctantly (hesitatingly), but bravely, raised her hand
and told Miss Myers that she would not be able to do the assignment, because
her family does not have a TV set. The class is shocked and disdainful (scornful), and makes fun
of her at recess.
After school Leslie
tried to sit in the place which was known to be the seventh graders' private
territory. Jess saved Leslie from Janice Avery, who was a seventh grader the
ultimate school bully.
That day Leslie took
Jess to an empty field behind the old Perkins Place and down to a dry creek bed
that separated farmland and the woods. There was an old crab apple tree just at
the bank of the creek bed that had a rope hung to it. Leslie suggested that they needed a place just of their
own, apart from the rest of the world and known only to them—a secret, magic
land of which they would be the rulers. Jess was excited by the idea, so they
crossed the creek with the help of the rope to the woods and found a land for
themselves. Leslie suggested that the only way to enter their secret land was
through the rope hung on the old crab apple tree. Leslie wanted to build a
castle in the secret land as she imagined themselves to be the rules of the
secret land. She Leslie named their secret land Terabithia. They dragged boards
and other materials down from the scrap heap and built their castle stronghold.
They even brought some crackers and dried fruit and old pepsi bottles for
water.
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