Ok

The dad is not in the picture. And I wasnt counting her, even though yes, she does support herself as well but I was indicating the others she supported.

Yep, and it even takes until we see Charlie offer to buy his tobacco that he says he’ll quit. As in…he was perfectly fine letting the mom buy his tobacco when she worked in the laundry all day and they only had cabbage stew to eat. He had regular tobacco and Charlie thought it was big treat to get one chocolate bar per year. Smh. Then she doesn’t even get to go on the exclusive chocolate factory tour…Charlie takes his deadbeat grandpa, who can suddenly and conveniently walk when there’s something fun to do. I feel so sorry for her. The woman who had been keeping the family of 5 afloat single handedly relegated to background character.

Just keep reading more. And look up every word you know. Don’t ask Reddit what a foundling is, Google it or use a dictionary. When I was in highschool I would look up, in a dictionary close to my bed (we didn’t have internet), what every word I didn’t know meant and then used it in a sentence to myself so it would stick.

Now things are more convenient, you can look it up on a phone. Even better if you’re reading on a kindle you can highlight the word. Reading expands vocabulary so much.

I’m sure more reading can help with your grasp of metaphor too…at least in modern lit where you understand context more. Ask yourself questions as you read…what does the author mean by that? Was that description important on a larger level?

Start with modern texts…not centuries old texts that you don’t even have an educational foundation for.

HP is also a comfort read for me. I was in 4th grade when they became wildly popular so they were some of the first large books I read. I can also say JK Rowling is insufferable and a bigot. No one is stopping me from reading my old copies while also calling her out. I can literally do both and I do.

Other ones for me are The Hobbit, some Anne Rice, some Amy Tan, One Hundred Years of Solitude, and Sister Carrie.

It’s supposed to be a mystery. We never know if she escaped or not, and Cariolanus doesn’t either. I like the ambiguity of it. It’s like the song she sang about her namesake.

Libraries buy the books and licenses. Plus I don’t think there’s an author out there would not support libraries, not want their book at a library, and say something like “Don’t read my book at a library! Libraries are crooks! Buy my book!” Like…who is seriously gonna naysay the concept of a library. And if there was someone like that…like Ayn Rand or someone…would you even care to support them anyways?