Some students harass and insult Hanna and destroy her schoolwork. Harris speaks highly of Papa, and Miss Walters praises Hanna’s performance and behavior, but the parents are not appeased and begin to pull their children from the school. Harris to hold a public school board meeting. Hanna is not “from” there, but neither is anyone else.
Miss Walters, the teacher, attempts to ease the students’ curiosity about Hanna by pointing out that every student in the school comes from another place because LaForge is a new town. On the second day, when she hears the other girls speculating about her, Hanna takes down her bonnet. Hanna starts school, keeping her bonnet on the first day in the hopes that she will make at least one friend before revealing her appearance. Harris meets Hanna, then permits her to begin school. Papa grows surly and questions why school is necessary, but Hanna persists until Papa agrees to ask Mr. She asks Papa about the possibility of attending school.
After moving to LaForge, Hanna’s thoughts quickly turn to school she is close to graduating after years of tutoring and independent learning. Hanna, however, dreams of designing and making dresses. Papa plans to open a new dress goods shop that sells sewing and dressmaking supplies but no constructed clothing. Even so, Hanna knows to keep her bonnet on to shield her face from view until Papa makes some acquaintances who will hopefully help along others’ acceptance of them as newcomers. Philip Harris, the LaForge justice of the peace, is a fair-minded and good man.
Papa thinks LaForge, a town in Dakota Territory, will be the right town in which to settle, largely because he knows that Mr. Hanna and her white father left their home and dress goods shop in Los Angeles soon after Mama’s death and sought to settle in a new place for three years. Hanna’s mother, an immigrant from China raised by American missionaries, died when Hanna was 11. Some of these terms may be quoted in the guide, but they do not imply that SuperSummary endorses the use of this language.įourteen-year-old Hanna Edmunds is a girl with a diverse racial background living in 1880 in the United States. Prairie Lotus includes racial language used during the 19th century in reference to members of the Asian community. This guide refers to the 2020 edition by Clarion Books, an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Publishing Company.
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