The Stone Angel: Chapter 6

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The Stone Angel Chapter 6
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Plot 1 Summary

• Hagar awakes in an old house - confused cold in
  pain and afraid.
• blames Doris.

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Plot 2

• hagar cant 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
  Shipleys on the prairies
• John looks dirty - appears to have been drinking.

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Plot 2 - Continued

• Bram doesnt know her - his condition has
  deteriorated
• - she feels ashamed, again, of her night
  thoughts of him over the years.
• John reminds hagar of Brams crudeness
• She meets Arlene, Lotties 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 .

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Plot 2 - Continued

• Marvin comes home for a few days
• - doesnt get along with John because of Johns
  lifestyle.
• Wants John to return with him to the coast. He
  refuses - wants his independence.!!!!
• Bram dies - his daughters didnt 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 doesnt.