Dandelion Wine Lesson Plan

In today's reading, the boys experience loss far more acutely than in previous chapters: what (or who) is lost, and how do the Spaulding boys seem to react?

The disconcerting loss of the Green Machine and the trolley barely compare, especially in Douglas’s mind, to the losses he suffers now. Colonel Freeleigh, Helen Loomis, and Great-grandma all pass away not long after John Huff informs Douglas he is moving far away. These deaths are startling to a boy who has just realized the beauty and richness of life, and he marvels to Tom that, "yesterday a whole lot of dust settled for good. And I didn’t even appreciate it at the time. It’s awful, Tom, it’s awful!... I never...