Jess has an idea, and uses the wood from the Burkeâs yard to build a bridge over the creek into Terabithia. Jessâs father in particular thinks his drawing habit is girly and a waste of time.
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She asks him if he has kept up his drawing over the summer and expresses a desire to see his work. His feelings of gratitude toward her, it seems, manifest as love or a crush: he’s so happy to have someone who sees him as he is without judgement that his feelings take him overboard.
Leslie is immediately alienated due to her casual mode of dressing for the first day of school. They write a love letter supposedly from her crush. Though Paterson shows how Leslie remains true to who she is, she also offers a glimpse into how hard it is to shirk the status quo. Mrs. Myer's comforted him telling him it was going to be alright. Struggling with distance learning? They write a love letter to Janice, pretending it is from the boy all the seventh graders (including Janice) have a crush on, and arrange for Janice to meet this boy one day after school. “I feel that Bridge is kind of a rehearsal that you go through to mourn somebody’s death that you care about,” Paterson has said. <<2D7E5C4CD2743347952404AAC7AB0FF4>]/Prev 299316>>
Leslie is continually alienated at school and bothered by the school bully Janice Avery, but she and Jess become closer and find refuge in a forest they find by swinging over a creek. Chapter 4: The first week of school drags by for Jess, especially since Leslie continues to beat him and all the other boys at their recess races. They talk on the bus, and Jess learns that Leslieâs parents are writers and rich. %PDF-1.5
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After being in the presence of Miss Edmunds—a benevolent, nonjudgmental figure who herself shirks gender roles and social norms—Jess forgives Leslie and decides that he wants to embark upon a friendship with the strange but magnetic girl. But the strange way his family is acting eventually reminds him, as does his fatherâs statement that they are going to the Burkeâs house to pay their respects. As Chapter Eleven shows, Jess' response to Leslie's death seems to follow a fairly typical pattern of going through a huge gamut of different emotions. Chapter 5. The two of them spend the next several days and weeks building and preparing Terabithia. to them later with the "Go To First Skipped Question" button. The other boys, unhappy at the direction their traditional activity has taken, begin to drift off to other pursuits. Jess escapes the tension of his family to return to Terabithia with Leslie. © 2020 eNotes.com, Inc. All Rights Reserved. QUESTION