When You Reach Me Forgiveness and Compassion Quotes Page 1
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| Quote #1 "Don't call him Quack," Mom said. "That's an awful name for a human being." |
Miranda's mom is always concerned with the well-being and dignity of fellow human beings. She is the moral compass of the novel. Here she urges Miranda to see the Laughing Man sympathetically.
| Quote #2 "But first you have to learn the V-cut," he told us. "Very important. Except he said "Velly important," stretched his eyelids back with two fingers, and bowed down low – it was the classic fake-Chinese act. I had never seen a grown-up do it before. If Mom had been there, she would have whacked him on the head with a plastic tray. (18.2) |
Even when not present, Miranda carries her mother's values of compassion and empathy with her. Why wouldn't Mom like Jimmy's impression?
| Quote #3 Her bringing the chips and cookies is supposed to help somehow. It's not really the cookies, she says. It's the fact that someone brings them. (26.16) |
Miranda's mom volunteers to run a parenting group for pregnant women in jail. Why might that be? Why does she bring the inmates cookies and chips?
