Out of nowhere the words from the Bible came into my head: “And a little child shall lead them.” I didn’t know why at first. The
n I did. There’s plenty about my life I can’t change. Can’t bring the dead back to life on this earth. Can’t make the world loving and kind. . . . But a patch of ground in this trashy lot – I can change that. . . . Better to put my time into that than moaning about the other all day. That little grammar-school girl showed me that. What does Wendell reveal about Kim in this paragraph?
She has become an inspiration to him.
He wishes that she would lead the neighborhood.
She can change a lot about a garden.
She is an excellent gardener.
In this paragraph its made apparent Wendell has has many hardships in his past; he has accepted many things in his life he cant change. However he also makes it clear through this short excerpt that he can make a small change; the line " But a patch of ground in this trashy lot – I can change that" supports this. With that said its obvious by the last line... "That little grammar-school girl showed me that.", that said young girl inspired him to make this small yet positive change.
In 1840, the transcendentalist periodical The Dial Walden "Self-Reliance" "Nature" was founded, and in that same year it published "Orphic Sayings" by Amos Bronson Alcott.
