New Adventure
I gave you a question yesterday asking you to find out the new things that Jerusha encountered after she left the asylum. What have you got?
Q: Why did college life so strange to Jerusha? What new things did she discover?
After she left the asylum, what was the first new thing that she discovered?
A train. (p. 13: “… I travelled yesterday for four hours in a train. … I never rode in one before.)
Then, she came to the college. What was her first impression about the college?
- The biggest
- Most bewildering place
Before Jerusha left the asylum, she had a serious talk with Mrs. Lippett. What did Mrs. Lippett tell her?
- How to behave all the rest of her life
- How to behave toward Mr. John Smith (to be respectful)
Hitching-Post, Dear Clothes-Pole: examples of meaningless names to Jerusha.
Q: In her letter, she mentioned about a “very comfortable sensation”. Why did she have this feeling?
- Mr. Smith gave her a sort of family.
- She felt as though she belonged to somebody now.
Q: How much does Jerusha know about Mr. Smith? What are the three things that she uses to describe Mr. Smith?
- Tall
- Rich
- Hate girls
Q: Why did Jersuha choose to call Mr. Smith, “Mr. Daddy-Long-Legs”, not “Mr. Girl-Hater” or “Mr. Rich-Man”?
- It was because among the three things that she described about Mr. Smith, Jerusha believed only tallness would remain in Mr. Smith’s life forever.
Q: How many people were living with Jerusha on the same floor? What are their names?
- Three other girls on the same floor.
- Sallie McBride and Julia Rutledge Pendleton (freshmen)
- One senior (wears spectacles)
She considered herself different from her floor-mates:
- properly brought up vs. foundling
Q: Why did Jerusha think she could make the college basketball team?
- Little
- Terribly quick
- Wiry
- Tough
Q: What is the colour of Jerusha’s room?
Comparison between Sallie McBride and Jerusha Abbott
Q: What thing did Jerusha learn in English? Which two areas in her English improving?
- Jerusha studied exposition in English. Her style improves every day in clearness and brevity.
Q: What is Physiology?
- The scientific study of the normal functions of living things.
- The way in which a particular living thing functions. (p. 19)
Comparison between Life in the Asylum and that in College
