The Stone Angel: Chapter 6

1. The Stone Angel: Chapter 6

2. Plot 1 :Summary • Hagar awakes in an old house - confused cold in pain and afraid. • blames Doris.

3. Plot 2 • hagar can’t afford to send John to college. (She lost her invested money through bad investment) • hagar cries , thinking Bram has died., but John assures her of the contrary. • John goes home to Manawaka. - Shipley place • Two years later John writes that his father, Bram is dying and hagar goes home. • Because of the drought, all places look like the Shipley’s on the prairies • John looks dirty - appears to have been drinking.

4. Plot 2 - Continued • Bram doesn’t know her - his condition has deteriorated • - she feels ashamed, again, of her night thoughts of him over the years. • John reminds hagar of Bram’s crudeness • She meets Arlene, Lottie’s daughter, who is a teacher. • hagar visits the cemetery, and has John right the toppled angel. - Irony • John stays out all night drinking like Bram used to .

5. Plot 2 - Continued • Marvin comes home for a few days • - doesn’t get along with John because of John’s lifestyle. • Wants John to return with him to the coast. He refuses - wants his independence.!!!! • Bram dies - his daughters didn’t attend the funeral - but they come to collect some of his things. • Bram buried in the Currie family plot. Irony • John assures her that it is all right, only different side of the same coin. • John cries after the funeral, hagar doesn’t.