More Than Human Part 1, Section 4 Summary

  • We're back to a description of how beautiful nature is. The jewels are a metaphor for dew, by the way.
  • Evelyn is on the window seat looking at all that beauty. She sings a song about how she can't touch the gladness, the beauty of "touchness," and how the rain, wind, and leaves and such touch her.
  • Alicia finds her, freaks out a little about the singing, and tells Evelyn to button up her collar.
  • Evelyn tells her older sister that she was talking to someone else and wants her sister to touch her.
  • Alicia instructs Evelyn to stop hugging her pillow. When Evelyn insists, Alicia decides to tell their father. Uh-oh, Spaghetti-Os.