How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #4
"Borrowing," he said after a while. "Is that what you call it?"
"What else could you call it?" asked Arrietty.
"I'd call it stealing." (10.9-12)
Would you call what the borrowers do stealing? What's the difference, anyway?
Quote #5
Human beans are for Borrowers—like bread's for butter! (10.19)
Is bread for butter? Can't you put all sorts of different things on it—like peanut butter, cream cheese, jam, or nutella? And, to be fair, you can totally put butter on things that aren't bread, like say, corn on the cob or pancakes. At the end of the day, it doesn't quite seem fair to say that bread is only for butter, or vice versa.
Quote #6
"I've only seen two Borrowers but I have seen hundreds and hundreds and hundreds and hundreds and hundreds—
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"Of human beings."
Arrietty stood very still. She did not look at him. After a while she said: "I don't believe you." (10.31,33-34)
It's hard to hear things that go completely against everything you've ever been taught. Think about the great hubbub that was caused when Charles Darwin proposed the theory of evolution, or the shenanigans that went down when Copernicus was all, dudes, the earth goes around the sun. Hello? In some ways, we might say that humans are all a little bit prejudiced because it's hard to accept change. And Arrietty's no different.