Question

In the story Little Women, one family brings breakfast to another on Christmas morning. Read this passage and then answer the question that follows: A poor, bare, miserable room it was, with broken windows, no fire, ragged bedclothes, a sick mother, wailing baby, and a group of pale, hungry children cuddled under one old quilt, trying to keep warm. How the big eyes stared and the blue lips smiled as the girls went in. "Ach, mein Gott! It is good angels come to us!" said the poor woman, crying for joy. What implicit meaning can you find about the sick woman and her children from this text? The mother did not know how to start a fire. The mother's illness made her children hate her. The mother was unable to provide for their needs. The mother and children lived in an abandoned building.

Answer 1

What you can implicit from this text feature is that the mother was very poor and the children were very hungry and there was no possible way for the poor mother to feed her hungry children even if she wanted to. You can also tell they live somewhere that isn't very stealthy and has no heating, also that it is in Winter seeing as though all her kids, including her were all huddled underneath a blanket to keep warm.

Answer 2

Implicit meaning is the undisclosed information that is evoked from the lines. The hidden meaning behind the scenes and lines are referred to as implicit meaning.

The implicit meaning that can be understood about the sick woman and her children that:

The mother was unable to provide for their needs.

From the given excerpt from the story "Little Women", the scene highlights the life of a poor and helpless mother living in a very worse condition along with her children. The scene is explained by describing the room, the bad health of the mother, the  'old quilt' and the 'hungry children'. This clearly brings the picture of the bad condition in which the women is living with her children. At the same time, the hidden meaning that is evoked from the scene is that of the mother's feeling of helplessness. She finds herself in the worst of the condition because of which she is not able to provide the basic needs to her children.

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