A land more kind than home

         This week I read chapters 8 - 11 in "A Land More Kind Than Home." In these chapters the narrator is Jess. The chapters start with her and her grandfather leaving Mrs. Lyle's house because Jess shouldn't be there with Stump's dead body, so the Grandfather takes her home. Then Jess start to think about what her life would be like without Stump, and all her memories flushed out of her.   She was thinking about how Stump's favorite thing to do was catch fireflies. 

         Then the grandfather told Jess to go get ready for bed. When Jess goes into her room she remembers about Stump's private things which are in a shoebox on a shelf. When she opens the shoebox, she sees something that she made for him. It was an ornament for a Christmas tree which resembled a firefly. Jess gave this to him for a present before he died. Then when Jess was trying to go to sleep she heard the door close and saw her grandfather in the tobacco fields cutting down tobacco. Then she falls asleep and that's for the chapter ends.