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Pollyanna Grows Up
Capítulos (33)
- Dedication 0:00
- I: Della Speaks Her Mind 0:05
- II: Some Old Friends 18:27
- III: A Dose of Pollyanna 43:29
- IV: The Game and Mrs. Carew 1:02:58
- V: Pollyanna Takes a Walk 1:18:29
- VI: Jerry to the Rescue 1:49:56
- VII: A New Acquaintance 2:06:04
- VIII: Jamie 2:21:21
- IX: Plans and Plottings 2:39:00
- X: In Murphy’s Alley 2:53:04
- XI: A Surprise for Mrs. Carew 3:12:11
- XII: From Behind a Counter 3:27:13
- XIII: A Waiting and a Winning 3:41:29
- XIV: Jimmy and the Green-Eyed Monster 4:04:00
- XV: Aunt Polly Takes Alarm 4:15:11
- XVI: When Pollyanna Was Expected 4:24:39
- XVII: When Pollyanna Came 4:41:53
- XVIII: A Matter of Adjustment 5:00:16
- XIX: Two Letters 5:13:38
- XX: The Paying Guests 5:28:42
- XXI: Summer Days 5:43:36
- XXII: Comrades 5:57:20
- XXIII: “Tied to Two Sticks” 6:14:04
- XXIV: Jimmy Wakes Up 6:21:31
- XXV: The Game and Pollyanna 6:37:35
- XXVI: John Pendleton 6:53:37
- XXVII: The Day Pollyanna Did Not Play 7:04:27
- XXVIII: Jimmy and Jamie 7:18:04
- XXIX: Jimmy and John 7:31:48
- XXX: John Pendleton Turns the Key 7:43:45
- XXXI: After Long Years 7:54:44
- XXXII: A New Aladdin 8:14:29
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In Pollyanna Grows Up we follow the titular character as she “grows up” through a story told in two connected parts. The first part takes place in Boston when she is age 13, having just been rehabilitated from severe injuries sustained in an automobile accident. As she leaves the hospital, she is sent to stay with a nearby dowager, who has long withdrawn into grief, pining for her lost nephew. Pollyanna is to be her “cure.” After leaving Boston, Pollyanna leaves the country with her Aunt Polly and doesn’t return to Vermont until she is 20 years old.
While in Boston, Pollyanna observes her host’s isolation and depression, which sits in stark contrast with the opulence of her home and her material wealth. Meanwhile, naive, relentlessly positive, literal-minded Pollyanna, often oblivious to the structure of society around her, slowly comes to understand the dire, grinding poverty, isolation, and alienation that turn-of-the-century Boston was also home to. Human connection is a central theme of the book and Pollyanna begins to engage with broader cultural and moral questions of her society before departing the country.
In the second half of the book, Pollyanna acts as host to the friends she made in Boston. As such, she reconnects with them and puts them in touch with her friends and family in Vermont. As a part of growing up, Pollyanna must now address questions of how these relationships might change as her age and social status change. She must reconcile the sense of obligation she feels with her desires, and with the wants and needs of those around her. Old relationships are expanded, and new relationships are formed (or revealed) with each, in the end, more connected to all.