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
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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