Explain the meaning of bracketed lines
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“The little girl (not so little anymore; the bumps her feet made under the covers were halfway down the bed, their big double bed that they let her be in for naps and when she was sick) had at last arranged herself..”
This sentence shows how much little Jo has grown, with her feet reaching halfway across the big double bed. Jo was allowed to be on her parents’ bed for naps, and also, when she was sick. She was fidgeting on the bed to find a suitable position in which she was comfortable enough to hear her father’s story.
“From the way her fat face deep in the pillow shone in the sunlight sifting through the drawn shades, it did not seem fantastic that some magic would occur, and she would take her nap like an infant of two.”
Her chubby face was lit up in by the sunlight, lowly trickling through the drawn shades and it looked almost magical. Recently, Jo wasn’t falling asleep as readily as she used to, when she was younger. But, the beautiful look on her face made the father think that she might just magically take her nap in an instant, like a two year old baby, just like her brother.
Jack asked, “Who shall the story be about today?”
It had been a father-daughter ritual for Jack to tell Jo a completely made up story about a small creature, during the evenings or during her Saturday naps. That’s why Jack asks Jo who the story will be about, for her naptime.
Roger...” Jo squeezed her eyes shut and smiled to be thinking she was thinking. Her eyes opened, her mother’s blue. “Skunk,” she said firmly.
Roger is always the name given to small creatures, the main characters of Jack’s story. Here, Jo is taking her time imagining what new creature will be the basis for Jack’s story. She is excitedly looking forward to hearing the story about the creature called skunk, an animal with a very strong smell. “Her eyes opened, her mother’s blue” is to say that Jo’s eyes and her mother’s looked very similar and were of the same blue colour.
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“The little girl (not so little anymore; the bumps her feet made under the covers were halfway down the bed, their big double bed that they let her be in for naps and when she was sick) had at last arranged herself..”
This sentence shows how much little Jo has grown, with her feet reaching halfway across the big double bed. Jo was allowed to be on her parents’ bed for naps, and also, when she was sick. She was fidgeting on the bed to find a suitable position in which she was comfortable enough to hear her father’s story.
“From the way her fat face deep in the pillow shone in the sunlight sifting through the drawn shades, it did not seem fantastic that some magic would occur, and she would take her nap like an infant of two.”
Her chubby face was lit up in by the sunlight, lowly trickling through the drawn shades and it looked almost magical. Recently, Jo wasn’t falling asleep as readily as she used to, when she was younger. But, the beautiful look on her face made the father think that she might just magically take her nap in an instant, like a two year old baby, just like her brother.
Jack asked, “Who shall the story be about today?”
It had been a father-daughter ritual for Jack to tell Jo a completely made up story about a small creature, during the evenings or during her Saturday naps. That’s why Jack asks Jo who the story will be about, for her naptime.
Roger...” Jo squeezed her eyes shut and smiled to be thinking she was thinking. Her eyes opened, her mother’s blue. “Skunk,” she said firmly.
Roger is always the name given to small creatures, the main characters of Jack’s story. Here, Jo is taking her time imagining what new creature will be the basis for Jack’s story. She is excitedly looking forward to hearing the story about the creature called skunk, an animal with a very strong smell. “Her eyes opened, her mother’s blue” is to say that Jo’s eyes and her mother’s looked very similar and were of the same blue colour.
Hope this answers your question. For further doubts, please ask on the forum and our experts will be happy to help you as soon as possible.
Regards.