Important Event - Kate

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There are several important events in the story, and all are pivotal to the book. However, I feel that the turning point of the story was when Mattie decided that was going to go to Barnard College. It is not a particularly dramatic moment, but the effect of surprise is still there, since there is no suspense leading up to that point.

"I'm leaving." "What?" "I'm leaving, Weaver." ... "Why Matt? Why are you going now?" I look at the Glenmore. I can see a light glowing softly in a little bedroom off the parlour. "Because Grace Brown can't," I tell him. We let go off each other. His eyes are welling. "Don't Weaver. If you do, I'll never make it.  I'll run right back inside and put my apron on and that will be the end of it." He nods and swallows hard. He makes a gun of his hand and points it at me. "To the death, Mathilda Gokey," he says. I smile and aim right back at him. "To the death, Weaver Smith."

This part is probably the most emotional in the book, or was for me. Weaver and Mattie have been very close friends and are about to be separated. You can tell it is hard for both of them. But at the same time, they are learning to let go. Maybe Mattie was afraid of letting go of her small, humble life and making a new start in the city.

Although Mattie says she is leaving because she knows Grace Brown can't, but I don't think that is the real reason. Every other time she has nearly left, the promise she made to her mother to not leave her family stops her. I think she eventually has the inner strength to realise that her mother would have wanted her to be happy, and that she has to live her life. I think when she says that she is going because Grace Brown can't, she is referring to the shortness of the latter's life. Nobody knows when they are going to die. Mattie knows this because of her mother and Grace. But she has the chance to make the most of the life she has, and take all opportunities. Grace never will.

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