Christy:
Chapters 26-32
Discussion Format: Your favorite Quotes General Impressions, and
three questions to answer for each week’s reading.
Favorite
Quotes*
‘It’s been the delight of my life to find God far more
common-sense and Practical than any human I know. The only time I ever find my
dealings with God less than Clear-cut is when I’m not being honest with him.
The fuzziness is always on my side, not His.”
“Ask questions, never be
afraid of the truth.”
“The Master cares. He suffers with us. He weeps when we weep. He
aches when we ache. He cares. “
“Preach the gospel, David, teach it, reach to the hearts of men.
That’s your business. Then the fruits, including the reforms in other areas,
will follow as fruits.”
“You’d be surprised how much Children can tell us ossified
adults, if we’d only stop to listen.”
General
Impressions
With this week reading
I’m finding that I liking Miss Alice even more.
It’s easy to see that she does indeed have a strong Faith. That believe
is stronger than David’s. And I have to say David jumped the gun in proposing
to Christy. The fact that Christy stayed
overnight at Opal’s despite her own fear because she didn’t really want Opal
and the kids to be alone and also because she didn’t want to go back to the
mission and have the men campout outside Opal’s to think that Christy was
trying to take back a message. It does that Christy is trying to and slowly
learning the ways of the mountains and her people. Also on a personal note I loved how my favorite quotes in this reading was also some of my mom's favorite as well.
Discussion
Questions
Answer any or all three of these questions in the comments
sections or in your own Blog Post!
1.
What turn of events shocked or surprised you the
most in this section? I mean technically
the feud should shock but seeing as I live in the state and neighboring that
was home to one of the most famous family feuds in history the Hatfield’s and
McCoy’s it doesn’t. What shocked me the most was the fact that Isaak’s
grandfather was pretty much making him dig his father’s grave by himself. And
like Isaak said he didn’t know how far down to dig. But I was glad to see that Rob stopped on his
way to go finish to him dig and then David took over for Isaak and finished the
digging.
2.
What do you think drove Christy to climb a mountain?
Have you ever been driven to something out of the ordinary or especially
challenging to you? What was the experience like? I think the simple fact that Christy wanted to
be able to prove to herself that she could do it drove her. For me challenging for me was either going
whitewater rafting or repelling for the first.
It was terrifying at first but after a few minutes when I realized I was
actually doing it; it was actually fun.
3.
What was your favorite part or performance from the
School’s last-day festivities? My favorite part of the last day festivities
for the school was Mountie O’Teale giving the opening. She’s come a long way
from the child who couldn’t speak without stuttering to being able to speak in
front of room full of people including classmates and parents and neighbors. As well as the people waiting outside.
*Catherine Marshall. Christy. (New York: Avon,
1968)341, 365,365, 369, 374
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