A Long Way from Chicago Group

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erizzzerizzz12
erizzzerizzz12
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I was reading this book and never got what the lesson of the book was? I also could not find the main choice the character had to make?

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Posted by erizzzerizzz12 on Tuesday January 27, 2009 at 1:09 PM and tagged with a long way from chicago, characters, summary, theme.

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  1. ladyvols1 Teacher
    High School - 9th Grade

    In the novel "A Long Way from Chicago," Joey and Mary Alice make the train trip to a small town every summer, in August, for seven years, for a week's visit with Grandma Dowdel.  The Depression era story is about how Grandma Dowdel makes people see what is right and wrong.  She has a way of bringing justice in her own unique way.  The idea of the novel though, is the way that Joey and Mary Alice change over those seven years.  At the beginning of the novel the children don't want to go to their grandmothers, they don't like the idea of being in this small town with no indoor bathroom and having to pump their own water. As the years pass the children begin to see their grandmother in a new way, and enjoy their visits and learn many lessons from their Grandma Dowdel.

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    Posted by ladyvols1 on Wednesday January 28, 2009 at 4:25 PM