The first passage that I had a strong reaction to was: "Gentlemen, let us look at things as they are. Some of us have come back to our native town because we'd failed to get on elsewhere. One way or other, things had gone wrong with us... what we'd dreamed of hadn't come true. But the fact that we had failed elsewhere is no reason why we should fail here. Our very experiments in larger places, even if they were unsuccessful, ought to have helped us make North Dormer a larger place..." My reaction to this was that I was delighted that someone try to see the good in living in North Dormer. I was glad that someone wanted to make it better. This function as well with the rest of the book because everyone seems unhappy at North Dormer because there is basically nothing there, and it is always being criticized.
The second passage that I had a strong reaction to was: "Well, after all, was her mother so much to blame? Charity, since that day, had always thought of her as destitute of all human feeling; now she seemed merely pitiful. What mother would not want to save her child from such a life?" I had a reaction to this because it seems like how she is describing her mother as if she did not care about her. That makes me feel sad that she felt this way and that she was contemplating this. This function as apart of the text as a whole because she wanted to be away from this place so much and she blamed her mother for her unhappiness.
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In your first quote, I also think Mr. Royall was trying to send a message to Charity that he understood here desire to leave North Dormer. Even though he had expressed his wish for them to leave before that scene, I think he was trying to reassure her that she didn't have to also leave her pride in being from North Dormer behind. I like this passage because it portrays Mr. Royall in a more humane light than before.
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