Dec 19, 2009

Silent Snow, Secret Snow | Summary

Aiken divides ‘‘Silent Snow, Secret Snow’’ into four distinct sections. In section I, the story introduces Paul Hasleman, age twelve, a student in Mrs. Buell’s sixth-grade classroom. Paul is distracted, however, by his intense memory of an event that occurred several days before. He thinks about the globe that figures in the day’s geography lesson and hears Deirdre, the girl who sits in front of him, awkwardly answer a question about the definition of the term ‘‘equator.’’ A few days earlier, Paul had the impression that snow had fallen; the sound of the postman’s...