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maganda12

Chapter 10 is titled "The Perfect Day." Please explain all the reasons why that day was perfect for Jess.

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Posted by maganda12 on Tuesday September 23, 2008 at 11:31 PM and tagged with bridge to terabithia, jess.

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  1. accessteacher
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    Chapter 10 describes the perfect day of Jess because that is the day he gets to visit an art gallery for the first time, and what is more, he gets to visit it with his favourite teacher that he is clearly infatuated with, Miss Edmunds. This sight of great works of art for the first time really inspires him: "he was drunk with colour and form and hugeness", as does the interest that Miss Edmunds takes in his artistic talent.

    However, it is important to note the irony of the naming of this chapter, for it is at the end of Jess's "perfect day", that he finds out about Leslie's death. Perhaps his day wasn't so perfect after all.

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    Posted by accessteacher on Wednesday September 2, 2009 at 2:39 PM