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A neighbor, Mr. Kent, comes to the Woodlawns warning of an Indian rumor of an attack. Mother calls it a  massacre. Father says that it is just a tavern rumor.  He also says that the white settlers must stand together, therefore, all the neighbors can gather at their farm. Mother states, "if those wicked redskins don't fire it before they have a chance to bunk...if the savages come, I wouldn't have them eat my turkeys!" (pg.105)

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"The novel is based on the stories of the author's grandmother who lived on the Wisconsin frontier in the 1860's in the story tries to reject her mother's attempts to turn her into a young lady, preferring to join and sometimes even instigate the deeds and pranks of her brothers. She stands up to a school bully and gets revenge on a snobbish, visiting cousin. Caddie's friendship of Indian John, a Native American at an encampment near their house ends up being a test tube of their character."

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Caddie is a girl who is a tomboy. "I wish my mother would let me wear boy's clothes" (pg. 15)

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Tom is the second oldest Caddie is the middle child, and Warren is the second youngest, Hetty is the youngest and the oldest is Clara. If Tom does something Caddie will follow along. Tom Caddie and Warren swim along the river. None of them know how to swim. When they come home from Indian John's camp, they pick hazelnuts. Caddie picked furiously, filling up her skirt. It was not often that she got more nuts than Tom."(pg. 10)

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Change, sibling rivalry, identity gender roles  and honesty

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During the period of the 1860's, a religious minister may come to a persons house

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"She was the despair of her mother and eldest sister, Clara but her father watched her with a little shine of pride in his eyes, and her brothers accepted her as one of themselves without a question" pg. 1) This tells the reader that Caddie is a tomboy, which despairs her mother, but her father and her brothers allow her to be herself

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For seven years, Caddie ran in the wild because when she arrived in Wisconsin from Boston she was sick and frail.

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For seven years, Caddie ran in the wild because when she arrived in Wisconsin from Boston she was sick and frail.

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Her father John Woodlawn, decided to let her run wild with her brothers.  "If Tom climbed a tree, Caddie would climb a taller one. If Warren caught a snake, Caddie would go after a longer one" (page. 13)

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Mrs. Woodlawn announces that Uncle Edmund, her brother, will arrive on the little steamer from the east. She tells Caddie and warren to stay home because there isn't enough room on the wagon. Tom and Clara both go to great Uncle Edmund. Caddie and Warren come up with an idea to meet Uncle Edmund. They take Betsy, the horse, and ride to Dunnville. "But not to meet Uncle Edmund was unthinkable" (pg. 29)

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Hetty is the self appointed news bearer of the family. Wild horses could not prevent her from being the first to tell, whatever it was that that happened.(pg. 4) When Tom Warren, and Caddie go to the river to cross it, Hetty runs back home to tell on her siblings. Another example is when Caddie and Warren take the horse to Dunnville, the author writes, "Hetty saw them go, and instant realization of what they were going to do flashed across her mind. Here was something important to tell" (pg. 33)

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Uncle Edmund chooses either Tom Caddie or Warren to hunt with him; using process of elimination he chooses Caddie because previously, Tom let a squirrel get away and Warren is too loud. Caddie wants to make a point of her superiority but then interrupts herself on principle: "It's too bad you little children have to stay at home. But of course we can't take all of you."
"But she closed it again without saying anything. After all she hated to see Tom and Warren disappointed, and also she didn't want to find a frog in her bed or a pail of water arranged above her head in such a way as to give her a drenching when she came back.

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Caddie is fierce because she stood up to Obadiah Jones. Obadiah Jones had his feet on Maggie's desk, and Maggie asked him to move his feet, and he didn't.  They began to fight until Miss Parker interfered between the two.

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Clara tells Caddie to buy ladies' gloves with her silver dollar because, "You've never had proper ones and your hands look like Indian's" (pg. 48)

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When the fight breaks out between Obediah and Caddie, Miss Parker comes into the schoolroom, Hetty tattle tales about what happened.  Caddie confesses, "Ma'am, he wouldn't take his feet off Maggie's desk and he said he wasn't scared of anybody in this school, and I hit his legs with a ruler" (pg. 67)

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When the children are listening to stories around the fire, Caddie jumps up and goes to the attic. She brings back breeches and clogs and then asks her parents about them. Her dad then tells her a story about his early childhood in England. He tells him that his grandfather was a lord who owned a huge castle in England. He tells them that his grandfather was a rich lord who owned a huge castle in England. The lord wanted his son, Caddie's grandfather Thomas to marry a beautiful lady, however, Thomas chose to marry the Seemstess. Because of this, the lord disinherited him from the monarchy. He was then kicked out of the house and was sent on the streets with a pregnant wife to support. He made little money through painting and soon, his son was born, Caddie's father.Soon after, Thomas died, for he wasn't as strong as Caddie's grandmother and Caddie's father. With his father out of the picture, John had to support his mom somehow, so he danced in those little breeches and clogs. He made very little money though, but it was enough to make a living and soon after, he found himself in America, with a wife, kids, and a decent amount of money.

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Caddie goes out to the Dunville store to buy a valentine but to her dismay the salesperson says that There's a young man in the back room sprouting potatoes for it" and sees that Tom is in the back room sprouting potatoes for the best valentine in the store.
When they get to school, Caddie finds out that Tom gave the valentine to Katie and caddie is jealous.

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Caddie and George Washington have the same birthday so when they celebrate presidents day she fells important. "Mr. Lincoln's flag, the flag of the north- Caddie Woodlawn's flag" (pg. 108) Caddie fells like a true American.

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"Twelve years old she was. Time to be a young lady, Mother said. But Caddie didn't think so, and Father's smiling eyes were still on her side" (pg.109) Caddie's parents are having a heated conversation about whether or not it is time for Caddie to become a lady. Father says let her get her health back, and Mother says that when she was her age, she knew how to bake bred, make jelly and different types of cakes. Caddie interrupts by saying she can plow.

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The word massacre filled the white settlers with terror. Uprisings filled the settlers of the North west Minnesota and Wisconsin with apprehension. "The fear spread like a disease, nourished on rumors and race hatred" (pg.106/119).
The Woodlawns host the people of the surrounding neighborhood. The Woodlawns host the people of the surrounding neighborhood.  As the days passed nothing fearful happens as they wait in uncertainty.  When Caddie is sent to the cellar by her mother to fetch a basket of turnips, she overs hears a conversation about the Indians. "The thing to do is to attack the Indians first" (pg. 112) Another man states, "If we kill or drive these Indians out, it will be a warning to the others that we deal hard with the red skins"(pg. 113/125) One man comments it would be hard to change Woodlawn's mind.

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The massacre was not easily forgotten.  Many people left the area to go back east. "But although it came to nothing and folks could laugh at the "massacre scare" ..it left  with many people  a deeper hatred of the Indians than they had ever felt before" (pg. 130/144).  The Indians prepared to move westward.

Indian John is sitting in the kitchen waiting for Caddie to return home. Indian John plans to give Caddie his father's scalp belt. He also gives  Caddie his dog.  Mrs. Woodlawn tells Caddie, "You do have a way with savages, Caroline Augusta Woodlawn." (pg. 133)

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"Wouldn't they be green with envy when they knew what they had missed" (pg. 133). Indian John had left Caddie in charge of his scalp belt. When Tom and Warren find out, they all decide to have a "peep show". Tom takes charge of it, and he decides how to charge admission for everyone to see. The currency however, was everything Tom liked.

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Caddie has come to a decision how to spend her silver dollar. Caddie displays a random act of kindness.  She decides to spend it on the Hankinson children whose mother is going away with her tribe due to the massacre rumor. Caddie takes them to the Dunville store. Brink writes, "The little Hankinsons looked on in amazement. The black mood of despair which had enveloped them all day had turned into wonder....No one had bought such things for them before"(pg.14)

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Katie Hymen doesn't show up at the scalp belt show and school. Caddie realizes that it might be her fault because she scared her about the massacre. When she and Tom arrive at Katie's log cabin, Caddie in her own way apologizes to Katie. "I shouldn't have made you cross your heart...it was real unkind of me."(pg. 175)

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Caddie has to recite a poem in front of the class and parents at the end of school. When she starts and ends her poem, she  curties as her mother taught her, "she had acquitted herself exactly as an accomplished young lady would have done Too bad that Mother had not been there to see" (pg. 185)

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Caddie visits Mary's grave site by herself. Brink gives the reader insight to Caddie's thoughts, "She had come with them from Boston, but she had died so soon and gone to rest on the north hill. No one missed her now, and it was hard to imagine that she would have been near Hetty's age, if she lived...one could see so far and think far thoughts" (pg. 206) This quote shows Caddie's peaceful side, and her empathy towards others.  Hetty comes up behind her, Caddie becomes the big sister as she and Hetty have a talk about Caddie being with her brothers all the time. Brink addresses Caddies feelings of empathy, "Suddenly she had understood for the first time that Hetty was all by herself...Was her eagerness to be the first to tell only her way of trying to make herself important in the eyes of all the selfish older people?" (pg.208)  Caddie understands that she, Tom and Warren were excluding Hetty from their adventures.

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Caddie and Tom decide to prank Annabelle because she insults them about being uncivilized. She brags about being from Boston. The first prank is when they teach her to ride Pete, the untamed horse.  The second prank Tom and Caddie pull  is when Annabelle salts the sheep. The third prank is when Caddie and Tom prank Annabelle with an egg down her back while she somersaults.

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While Caddie is up in her room alone in her bedroom because she has been punished by her mother for her behavior, Father comes up to talk to her about it. On page 244, "It's a strange thing, but somehow we expect more from  girls than boys..." (pg.244)
On page 245, Caddie comes to an understanding about Father's talk, Brink writes, "It was a responsibility, but as Father spoke of it, it was beautiful and precious one, Caddie was ready to go and meet it" (pg. 217).

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"Looking toward the approaching rider, her face was turned to the west. It was always be turned westward now, for Caddie Woodlawn was a pioneer and an American (pg. 242). This is Caddie's true identity.

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When the Circuit Rider and Nero return, many things run through Caddie's mind, "A lot has happened since last year when I dropped the nuts all over the floor. How far I've come! I'm the same girl  and yet not the same girl. I wonder if it's always like that? Folks keep growing from one person into another all their lives, and life is a lot of every day adventures. Well, whatever life is, I like it" (pg. 241).