How are Jess and Leslie similar?

Both Jess and Leslie have individual characteristics that the other person responds to. Leslie is well read, imaginative, courageous, and self-assured. Jess is intelligent, but not particularly well educated, practical, kind, and compassionate.

How would you describe Leslie Burke?

Leslie is full to the brim with imagination, creativity, mischief, and fun. A voracious reader with a keen sense of intellectual curiosity, she is the one who comes up with the idea of Terabithia. Leslie often gives the impression of being absolutely fearless, which Jess at once admires and finds intimidating.

How did Leslie Burke die?

In Bridge To Terabithia, the female protagonist, Leslie Burke, dies when the rope she and Jesse used to swing across the river snaps, causing her to fall and hit her head and passing out, resulting in her drowning.

What are Jess’s sisters names?

Ellie and Brenda Aarons – Ellie and Brenda Aarons are Jess’s two older sisters. They primarily exist as secondary static characters, or characters who do not grow or change as a result of the events of a story.

What is Leslie Burke afraid of?

It needed Leslie to make the magic. He was afraid he would destroy everything by trying to force the magic on his own, when it was plain that the magic was reluctant to come for him.

Did Leslie have a crush on Jess?

How old is May Belle?

When Jess comes home, he finds out that Leslie drowned in the creek while trying to get to Terabithia and realizes that he really did love her.

What is the name of Leslie’s puppy?

six years old

What is the Leslie Burke special?

The littlest sister cries at him for no reason. And then, there’s May Belle. She’s six years old – four years younger than Jess – and she just adores him.

What lesson did Jess teach May Belle?

Prince Terrien

Why does Jess like May Belle?

Leslie is delighted with the puppy. She names it Prince Terrien, making it a prince of Terabithia.

How did May Belle find out about Terabithia?

Myers continues her love fest for Leslie – flashing what is later known as the ‘Leslie Burke special’ smile – telling the students that she is assigning them to watch a scuba diving documentary on television later that night. After that, the students are to write a short essay on what they learned about diving.

How did Jess turn Terabithia over to May Belle?

She taught him to forget Leslie, and that he has suffered enough. She taught him the importance of making new friends so Leslie’s death wouldn’t be so severe. She taught him to forget Leslie, and that he has suffered enough.

Why was Janice Avery crying at school?

Jess likes May Belle because she is the one sister that worships the ground that he walks upon. Jess is annoyed by her constant desire to hang out with him; however, he also enjoys the feeling of hero worship that he gets from May Belle. May Belle simply loves Jess because of who he is. She likes that he runs.

Why did May Belle try to cross the creek?

May Belle does what any other curious sister would do with a sibling she adores; she learns about the creek and Terabithia because she secretly followed Jess. She admits this to Jess one night as they are falling asleep.

Why is the glass of milk that Jess pours for himself warm?

What did Mrs Myers help Jess to realize?

Jess leads May Belle into Terabithia, across the bridge, “which might look to someone with no magic in him like a few planks.” He draws her into the fantasy land, whispering that the Terabithians have all come to see her, “the queen they’ve been waiting for.”

What does Jess do first thing in the morning?

Jesse feels lonely because Leslie is spending more time with her father Bill, helping him renovate their house. At school, Jesse and Leslie find mean Janice Avery crying because she feels she betrayed her father. After talking with Janice, Leslie feels better that she’s found a way to connect with her.

Why did they eliminate off Leslie in Bridge to Terabithia?

May Belle has tried to cross to the other side of the creek on the branch, but she has gotten stuck halfway and is too terrified to move. May Belle confesses that she had wanted to help him so he would not be lonely, but that she got too scared.

What did Leslie name their secret land?

Why is the glass of milk that Jess pours for himself warm? The glass of milk was still warm because Jess just milked Bessie and poured himself a glass of it to drink before it was refrigerated.

Why does Leslie go to church with Jessica?

This humanizes her to Jess, who’d never thought about his teacher’s personal life. Of all the adults who interact with Jess after Leslie’s death, his teacher is one of the ones who helps him the most: “Mrs. Myers had helped him already by understanding that he would never forget Leslie” (13.57).