Chapter 8: Easter
Word meaning
1. trickle -
flow in as a small stream
2. wearily – tiredly
3. oblige- grateful
4. clamber – mount on / climb
5. aisle – walkway
6. vile – evil
Summary
Easter is coming up, and
Jess's family is starting to prepare excitedly. His family only goes to church
on Easter. Brenda and Ellie in particular relish the opportunity to show off in
new clothes. However, Jess's dad gets laid off (job less) just before Easter,
and this means to Ellie and Brenda is that there will be no new clothes. It
adds a new stress on an already careworn (worried) household.
Leslie asks Jess if she can go with them as
she had never been to church. Jess is bewildered and persuades his mother to
let Leslie go with them.
Church itself is a wholly
unfulfilling experience for Jess. He finds the whole thing to be tiresome and
monotonous, and has never gotten anything out of the experience. Leslie,
however, is fascinated. She finds the Jesus story to be beautiful and amusing.
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