The year prior, Jess won a race during recess and realized how good it felt to be admired. She is also an outsider who doesn’t fit in with other teachers, and Jess thinks he is in love with her.ĭesperate for attention and affirmation, especially from his father, Jess takes up running. The only person who encourages Jess is Miss Edmunds, his music teacher. A few years ago, when Jess showed his father his art, his father criticized it for being too girly. Although he longs to share his art with his father, he knows his father disapproves. Jess loves drawing and the peace it gives him, but he hides his hobby because it draws ridicule. Jess’s mother, drained from the demands of her oldest daughters, has little patience for Jess, blaming him for any undone chores and his littlest sister May Belle’s whining. Because the family cannot live off their small farm, Jess’s father commutes to Washington, DC, for work every day, leaving him with no energy to spend time with Jess, who envies the attention that Mr. His family, like most in their community, live in poverty. Jess feels lonely in his family of seven. Jesse “Jess” Aarons, the 10-year-old protagonist, is the middle child and the only boy in his family. The novel takes place sometime in the mid-1970s, shortly after the end of the Vietnam War. Bridge to Terabithia is set in Lark Creek, a small, rural Virginian town.
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