Question

Read the excerpt from Louisa May Alcott's Hospital Sketches (1863). Then summarize the narrator's journey by describing at least three
things she does while on the train. Write at least three complete sentences.

Answer 1

Answer:

In summary of the narrator's journey, she did the following while on the train:

1. She had conversation with the gentleman who shared her seat.

2. She ate much gingerbread and fine pear  during the journey to comfort her loneliness.

3. She endeavoured to keep her tickets safely in the innermost corner of her purse.

4. She looked much at Dr. H's paper of directions.

5. She almost lost her tickets till someone in the train helped to poke them out of a crack with a pen-knife.

In Louisa May Alcott's Hospital Sketches (1863), Alcott gave an account of her time while  she was working as a nurse during the US Civil War.