【TTL精品读书会】《Little Fires Everywhere》第三期解读版内容

2018年06月08日 TTL星腾科高端留美


本期推荐好书
《Little Fires Everywhere》(小小小小的火)是美籍华裔女作家 Celeste Ng(伍琦诗)的第二部畅销小说,对于这两个名字大家有可能没听说过,但是前几年火遍各大卖书网站占据畅销榜冠军的《无声告白》想必大家都有所耳闻,这是伍琦诗的第一部小说,而我们今天带给大家的这本《小小小小的火》是Celeste Ng的第二部长篇小说,讲述了一个幸福美满的美国中产家庭与她们房客的故事。通过展现两个截然不同的家庭日常,将友情、爱情、嫉妒、青春悸动、各种对立、冲突融合到整部作品之中,环环紧扣引人入胜。


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Episode 3n.插曲;一段情节;插话;有趣的事件


Introduction to Episode 3


Welcome back to ThinkTank Learning’s Reading Group! My name is Carine, and I will be your host as we explore great literature together.

This is Episode 3 of our series, in which we are reading and discussing Chapters 7 through 9 of Celeste Ng’s award-winning novel, Little Fires Everywhere. Before we begin, let’s refresh our memories about some of the important plot developments from the last episode.

 

Quick Summary of Episode 2 (Chapters 5-6)


In our last episode, we saw a number of new relationships form among the characters. In Chapter 5, Lexie takes pity on “Little Orphan Pearl”, who seems so shy and awestruckadj. 敬畏的;惊奇不已的 by the Richardsons’ wealth. As a result, Lexie takes Pearl shopping and gives her fashion advice. Trip Richardson begins to notice that Pearl is attractive, and he begins flirtingn. 打情骂俏 with her, much to Pearl’s delight. Moody is jealous and Mia is worried by these changes. After Pearl helps Lexie write her college application essay to Yale, Lexie thanks Pearl by bringing her to a Halloween party hosted by the coolest girl in school. Pearl hopes to flirt with Trip at the party, but she ends up drunk and alone. Pearl cannot find Lexie, who has already left with her boyfriend. Eventually, Moody drives over to pick up Pearl, and he tries to hide the fact that he is hurt by Pearl preference for Lexie and Trip over him.


In Chapter 6, Mia receives a visit from her landlady, Mrs. Elena Richardson. Elena drops by the duplex to see how Mia is settling in. Elena complimentsn. 恭维(compliment的复数);问候;道贺 v. 祝贺(compliment的三单形式);向…致贺辞Mia on her photography, which is striking and unusual. Elena cannot understand why Mia only works at a low-paying job, so she suggests that Mia use her talents to take portraits. Mia politely but firmly declines, stating that art is her primary focus, not money. In other words, Mia wants to show people as they really are, not how they want to be seen by others. However, Elena believes it is her duty as an important member of the Shaker Heights community to support those who are less fortunate. As such, Elena insists on hiring Mia as a part-time housekeeper so that Mia will have time for her art. Mia wants to refuse, but she realizes that this would be the perfect opportunity to learn more about the Richardsons and observe Pearl. Mia accepts, which draws the Richardsons and Warrens closer together.  


Chapter 7


Not everyone is comfortable with Mia Warren cooking and cleaning at the Richardsons’ house. Pearl, of course, is annoyed that her mother’s presencen. 存在;出席;参加;风度;仪态) will put a stop to her comfortable friendship with the Richardson teenagers and Trip’s flirtatious behavior. Mr. Richardson also feels awkward that his wife has hired the mother of one of his children’s friends. He makes it a point to talk to Mia on her first day, stressing the family’s gratitude and letting her know that she is welcome to stop working for them if it no longer meets her needs.


Mia develops a schedule, where she cleans in the morning, goes home to take photographs in the afternoon, and returns to cook in the evening. Although Mrs. Richardson lets her know that she only needs to come once, Mia insists that afternoon is her favorite time to photograph. However, Mia has other motives. Celeste Ng writes,

The truth was that she wanted to study the Richardsons both when they were

there and when they weren’t. Every day, it seemed, Pearl absorbed something new from the Richardson family: a turn of phrase (“I was literally dying”), a gesture (a flick of the hair, an eye roll). She was a teen, Mia told herself over and over; she was trying on new skins, like all teenagers did, but privately she stayed wary of the changes she saw. Now, every afternoon, she would be there to check on Pearl, to observe these Richardsons who fascinated her daughter so. Every morning she would be free to investigate on her own.

In the course of her cleaning, Mia began to observe carefully. She knew when Trip had failed a math test by the shredded scraps in his trash bin, when Moody had been writing songs by the crumpled wads of paper in his. She knew that no one in the Richardson family ate the crust of the pizza or brown-spotted bananas, that Lexie had a weakness for gossip magazines and--based on her bookshelf--Charles Dickens, that Mr. Richardson liked to eat those cream-filled carameln. 焦糖;饴糖;焦糖糖果) bull’s-eyes by the bagful while he worked in his study at night. By the time she finished an hour and a half later, the house tidy, she had a very good sense of what each member of the family was doing.

One day, while Mia is cleaning, she meets the youngest Richardson child: Izzy Richardson, a freshman. Izzy has been suspended from school. Touched by Mia’s simple kindness of making her a sandwich without any feelings of pity, distrust, or expectations, Izzy explains why she was suspendedadj. 悬浮的;暂停的,缓期的(宣判). Izzy challenged Mrs. Peters, a widely dislike orchestra teacher who is often hungover and verballyadv. 口头地,非书面地;用言辞地) abusive toward students. Celeste Ng writes,


Watching Mrs. Peters pick on Deja, in front of everyone, had been like watching


someone drag a kitten into the street and club it with a brick, and something inside of

Izzy had snapped. Before she knew it, she had cracked Mrs. Peters’s bow over her knee and flung the broken pieces at her…

Although Izzy was sure, now, Mia would understand all of this, she did not know how to put everything she felt into words. She said only, “Mrs. Peters is a total bitch. She had no right to say that to Deja.”

“Well?” said Mia. “What are you going to do about it?”


This question startles Izzy, who has longed to shake up the status quo, or the expected order of things. Izzy is inspired to take revenge on Mrs. Peters. When Moody and Pearl stop her from throwing toilet paper all over Mrs. Peters’s house, Mia overhears the conversation and jumps in to give Izzy some advice. Mia tells a story from her high school years, in which a friend glued a teacher’s door shut for revenge. The friend was caught because he was the only student that the teacher gotten into an argument with recently. She explains that if Izzy just targets Mrs. Peters, people will automaticallyadj. 不经思索的 adv. 自动地;机械地;无意识地) know Izzy did it because Izzy has just gotten suspended. Pearl is embarrassed by her mother, but Izzy and Moody are impressed at this hidden side to Mia. Celeste Ng writes,

All evening Izzy turned over Mia’s story, her question from before: What are you

going to do about it? In those words she heard a permission to do what she’d always been told not to: to take matters into her own hands, to make trouble. By this point, Izzy’s anger had ballooned to cover not only Mrs. Peters but the principal who’d hired her, the vice principal who had handed out the suspension, every teacher--every adult--who’d ever cudgeled a student with arbitrary, unearned power. The next day, she cornered Moody and Pearl and outlined her plan.

“It’s going to piss her off,” said Izzy. “It’s going to piss everyone off.”

“You’re going to get in trouble,” Moody protested, but Izzy shook her head.

“I’m doing this,” she said. “I’m only going to get in trouble if you don’t help me.”


Thus, Izzy, Moody, and Pearl take revenge by jamming every door in the high school before first period starts. As the school is plunged into chaos, Mrs. Peters the orchestra teacher becomes increasingly nervous. She has to use the restroom badly, but the doors to the staff lounge and staff restroom are jammed. Ashamed to walk among the students, Mrs. Peters does not want to use the student restroom, which is unlocked because it has a swinging entrance door. Finally, when she can bear it no longer, Mrs. Peters heads to the student restroom. The talkative, gossiping students inside the restroom go silent as Mrs. Peters rushes into a stall. However, Mrs. Peters’ bladder gives way as soon as she sees the toilet, causing her to pee in  her pants and all over the floor. After a shocked silence, the students rush out into the hallway and burst out laughing. Mrs. Peters’ reputation is ruined because the story spreads quickly around school and becomes a legend that is passed down for years to come. Mrs. Peters is also given a new nickname, “Mrs. Pissers.” Overall, Izzy, Moody, and Pearl’s prank becomes immortalizedadj. 不灭的,永生的 v. 永生化 in school history as Toothpick Day. It brings Izzy and Deja somewhat closer together, and it also inspires Izzy to seek out Mia’s company. Celeste Ng writes,


[Izzy] kept thinking of Mia’s smile that day in the kitchen, the capability she saw

there to delight in mischief, in breaking the rules. Her own mother would have been horrified. She recognized a kindred spirit, a similar subversiven. 危险分子;颠覆分子adj. 破坏性的;从事颠覆的 spark to the one she often felt flaring inside her. Instead of shutting herself up in her room all afternoon, she began to come down when Mia arrived and linger in the kitchen while she cooked--much to her siblings’ amusementn. 消遣,娱乐;乐趣. Izzy ignored them. She was too fascinated by Mia to care. And then, a few days later, Mia answered the little Winslow house to find Izzy outside.

“I want to be your assistant,” Izzy blurted out…

“You don’t have to pay me. I’ll do it for free. Please.” Izzy was not used to asking for favors, but something in her voice told Mia that this was a need, not a want. “Whatever needs doing, I’ll do it. Please.”

Mia looked down at Izzy, this wayward, wild, fieryadj. 热烈的,炽烈的;暴躁的;燃烧般的 girl suddenly gone timid and dampened and desperate. She reminded Mia, oddly, of herself at that age, traipsing through the neighborhood, climbing over fences and walls in search of the right photograph. Single-minded almost to excess. Something inside Izzy reached out to something inside her and caught fire.

“All right,” Mia said, and opened the door wider to let Izzy inside.


As Chapter 7 draws to a close, we see new alliancesn. 联盟,同盟;盟国) forming. Pearl is drawn to Elena Richardson and her children, while Izzy is drawn to Mia Richardson. These dynamics will help drive the conflict forward.


Chapter 8


This chapter, in particular, explores the mother-daughter dynamics between Izzy and Mia and Izzy and her own mother, Elena. Celeste Ng writes,

Izzy hung on Mia’s every word, sought and trusted her opinion on everything.

Along with the basics of photography, she began to absorb Mia’s aestheticsn. 美学;美的哲学) and sensibilities. When she asked Mia how she knew which images to put together, Mia shook her head…”I don’t have a plan, I’m afraid,” she said…”But then, no one really does, no matter what they say.”

“My mother does. She thinks she has a plan for everything.”

“I’m sure that makes her feel better.”

“She hates me.”

“Oh, Izzy. I’m sure that’s not true.”

“No, she does. She hates me. That’s why she picks on me and not any of the others.”

…”Izzy,” she said now, “I’ll tell you a secret. A lot of times, parents are not the best at seeing their children clearly. There’s so much wonderful about you.” She gave Izzy’s elbow a little squeezen. 压榨;紧握;拥挤;佣金 vt. 挤;紧握;勒索 vi. 压榨...and Izzy beamed. During those afternoons, when it was just the two of them, it was easy for Izzy to pretend that Mia was her mother, that the bedroom down the hallway was hers, and that when night fell she would go into it and sleep and wake in the morning. That Pearl--a mile and a half away, watching television with her own brothers and sister--did not exist, that this life belonged to her, Izzy, and her alone...Now, in her carefully spun dreams, she was reunited with her true mother. I knew I’d find you someday, Mia would say.


A major turn of events occurs when Moody and Pearl go on a class field trip to an art museum. While browsing an exhibit about Madonna and Child, they stumble upon a photo entitled Virgin and Child #1, taken in 1982. Moody and Pearl are stunned. Celeste Ng writes,


Pearl...focused on the photograph itself. There was her mother, looking a bit younger, a bit thinner, but with the same waifish build, the same high cheekbones and pointed chin. There was the tiny mole just underneath her eye, the scar that slashed like a white thread through her left eyebrow. There were her mother’s slender arms, which looked so fragileadj. 脆的;易碎的 and birdlike, as if they might snap under too great a weight, but which could carry more than any woman Pearl had ever seen. Even her hair was the same: piled in the same careless bundle right at the crown of her head. Beauty rolled off her in waves, like heat; the very image of her in the photograph seemed to glow. She wasn’t looking at the camera; she was focused, totally and utterlyadv. 完全地;绝对地;全然地;彻底地,十足地 absorbed, on the infant before her. On me, Pearl thought...Where had this photo come from?...The person who’d take it had been mere feet away, as if seated on an armchairn. 扶手椅,单人沙发 adj. 不切实际的just beside the couch. Who had it been?


Full of curiosity, Pearl and Moody return to the museum later on with Lexie and Izzy. The teenagers are certain that the woman in the photo is Mia Warren, but they are very confused as to why this photo is in the museum. When they head back to the Richardson’s house, they find Mia cooking dinner and ask her for answers. Mia is standoffishadj. 冷淡的,不友好的 and avoids giving a definite answer. Celeste Ng writes,


Pearl realized she’d gone about this all wrong. She should never have asked her mother like this, in the Richardson kitchen with its granite countertops and its stainless-steel fridge and its Italian terra-cotta tiles, in front of the Richardson kids in their bright, buoyant North Face jackets, especially in front of Lexie, who still had the keys to her Explorer dangling from one hand. If she’d waited until they were alone, back at home in the dim little kitchen in their half a house on Winslow Road, perched on their mismatched chairs at the one remaining leaf of their salvaged table, perhaps her mother would have told her. Already she saw her mistake: this was a private thing, something that should have been kept between them, and by including the Richardsons she had breached a barrier that should not have been broken. Now, looking at her mother’s set jaw and flat eyes, she knew there was no sense in asking any more questions.


Izzy’s curiosity about the photograph is piquedadj. 赌气的;不满的;激怒的v. 伤害…自尊心;激怒, and she spends her free time researching the famous photographer, Pauline Hawthorne. When she hits a dead end, Izzy turns to her mother for help. Celeste Ng writes,


Her mother was a journalist, at least in name. True, her mother mostly covered small stories, but journalists found things out. They ad connections, they had ways of researching that weren’t accessible to just anyone. From early childhood, Izzy had been fiercely, stubbornly independent; she refused to ask for help with anything. Only the deep hunger to unravel this mysterious photograph could have convinced her to approach her mother.


Mrs. Richardson agrees to help Izzy, especially since this request gets at her childhood dream --now seemingly given up-- of becoming a serious journalist. Mrs. Richardson’s life has followed an organized plan, but she still has not been able to achieve one of her biggest dreams. Celeste Ng writes,


Izzy’s words--You’re a reporter--had touched her mother’s pride like a finger

pressed into an old bruise...Journalism, to Mrs. Richardson, seemed such a noble calling, one where you could do good from within the system, and in her mind she envisioned a mix of Nellie Bly and Lois Lane…

So she’d headed to [college] with an ambitious and illustrious future plotted out for herself. On the second day of classes she met Billy Richardson, tall and handsome in the Clark Kent vein, and by the end of the month they were going steady. Chastely they made plans for the future: after graduation, a white wedding in Cleveland, a house in Shaker, lots of children, law school for him, a cub reportership for her--a plan they followed meticulously. Soon after they married and settled into a rented duplex in Shaker, Mr. Richardson started law school and Mrs. Richardson was offered a position as a junior reporter at the Sun Press. It was a small paper, focused on local news, and the pay was commensuratelyadv. 相当地,相称地;同量地 low. Still, she decided, it was a promising enough place to start. In time, perhaps, she’d be able to make the jump over to the Plain Dealer, Cleveland’s “real”newspaper--though of course she’d never want to leave Shaker, could not imagine raising a family anywhere else…

She focused on the feel good stories, the complimentary write-ups of progress...She became known as reliable and for turning in clean copy, if--though no one said it out loud--routine and rather pedestrian and terribly nice. Shaker Heights was dependably safe and thus the news, such as it was, was correspondinglyadv. 相应地,相对地 dull...In Shaker Heights, things were peaceful, and riots and bombs and earthquakes were quiet thumpsn. [兽医] 猪肺病(thump的复数)v. 重击(thump的三单形式), muffled by distance. Her house was large; her children safe and happy and well educated. This was, she told herself, the broad strokes of what she had planned out all those years ago…

Izzy’s request, however, brought something new. Something intriguing, or at least very interesting. Something perhaps worth investigating.


Mrs. Richardson begins to research Pauline Hawthorne and the photograph. She calls Anita Rees, the art dealer who sold the photograph to the museum. Anita is very suspicious and is unwilling to give information about the original owner of the photograph or the model, who Mrs. Richardson already knows to be Mia. Although Mrs. Richardson is vaguelyadv. 含糊地;暧昧地;茫然地) irritated, she tries to move on with her other projects and brush off this mystery as one of her daughter Izzy’s over-reactive, harebrained schemes. Nevertheless, this question will continue to haunt Mrs. Richardson and push her to take irreversible actions.


Chapter 9


Mrs. Richardson and her daughter Izzy have a complicated relationship, and we learn why in this chapter. Celeste Ng writes,


A modern woman, [her own mother] had always implied, was capable--nay, required--to have it all. So after each birth, Mrs. Richardson had returned to her job, crafted the pleasant, wholesome stories here editor demanded, come home to fawn over her little ones, waited for the next baby to arrive.

It wasn’t until Izzy that the charmed row of children came to an end. For starters, Mrs. Richardson had had terrible morning sickness, bouts of dizziness and vomiting that didn’t end with the first trimester but continued on unabated...Despite...precautions, Izzy had arrived precipitously soon...making her appearance--eleven weeks early--an hour after her mother arrived at the hospital.

Mrs. Richardson would remember the next few months only as a vague, terrifying haze. Of the logistical details, she remembered only a little. She remembered Izzy curled in a glass box, a net of purple veins under salmon-colored skin. She remembered watching her youngest through the portholes in the incubator, nearly pressing her nose to the glass to be sure Izzy was still breathing.


This anxiety over Izzy’s health continues as Izzy grows older, creating a push-pull dynamicn. 动态;动力 adj. 动态的;动力的;动力学的;有活力的 between Mrs. Richardson and Izzy. Celeste Ng writes,

As time went on, the concern unhooked itself from the fear and took on a life of

its own. She had learned, with Izzy’s birth, how your life could trundle along on its safe

little track and then, with no warning, skid spectacularly off course. Every time Mrs.

Richardson looked at Izzy, that feeling of things spiraling out of control coiled around缠绕在)her

again, like a muscle she didn’t know how to unclench…

Izzy, however, had been born to push buttons, and as she grew...the more

closely her mother watched her and the more she chafed at the attention...The sense all

the children had--including Izzy--was that she was a particular disappointment to their

mother, that for reasons unclear to them, their mother resented her. Of course, the more

Izzy pushed, the more anger stepped into shield her mother’s old anxiety, like a shell

covering a snail.


The weekend after Thanksgiving, a new major conflict develops. The Richardsons are invited to a holiday party at the McCulloughs. Mrs. Richardson and Mrs. Linda McCullough have been friends since second grade. Both girls planned their lives out: college, marriage, work, and children. However, Linda was unable to have children, trying unsuccessfully for several years with her husband before they decided to adopt. At the party, the McCullough’s are happy to introduce everyone to the baby they are in the process of adopting. An Asian baby was left at a fire station, so a social worker called the McCulloughs. The couple is now planning to rename the child Mirabelle Rose McCullough. Izzy Richardson begins to ask questions about the baby, such as how the couple knows her birthday and if the baby had a name before. The questions stir discomfort. Celeste Ng writes,

The baby had been tucked in a cardboard box, wearing several sets of clothing

and cocooned in blankets against the January cold. There had been a note in the box, too, which Mrs. McCullough had eventually convinced the social worker to let her read: This baby name May Ling. Please take this baby and give her a better life. That first night, when the baby had finally fallen asleep in their laps, Mr. and Mrs. McCullough spent two hours flippingadj. 非常的;糟透的adv. 非常;该死地v. 轻弹;急动;蹦蹦跳跳) through the name dictionary. It had not occurred to them, then or at any point until now, to regret the loss of her old name.

“We felt it was more appropriate to give her a new name to celebrate the start of her new life,” she said. “Mirabelle means ‘wonderful beauty.’ Isn’t that lovely?” Indeed, staring down that night at the baby’s long lashes, the little rosebud mouth half open in deep and contented slumber, she and her husband had felt nothing could be more appropriate.

“When we got our cat from the shelter, we kept her name,” said Izzy. She turned to her mother. “Remember? Miss Purrty? Lexie said it was lame but you said we wouldn’t change it, it would be too confusing to her.”

“Izzy,” Mrs. Richardson said. “Behave yourself.”

Lexie, in contrast, is obsessed with the new baby, and she happily shares all the details about the baby with Mia. She tells Mia that the baby was discovered at the fire station, and Mia suddenly is interested in knowing where the fire station was and in what month the baby was found. In fact, Mia believes she knows who the mother is, although she doesn’t let Lexie know this. In addition to doing housekeeping and cooking at the Richardson’s house, Mia still works part-time at Lucky Palace, a local Chinese restaurant. Mia has gotten to know another waitress, named Bebe, learning her life story. Celeste Ng writes,

Bebe, a year earlier, had had a baby. “I so scared the,” she told Mia, fingers

working the soft paper of the napkin. “I have nobody to help me. I cannot go to work. I cannot sleep. All day long I just hold the baby and cry.”

“Where’s the baby’s father?” Mia had asked, and Bebe had said, gone…”I tell him I having a baby, two weeks later he disappear...I move here for him, you know that? Before that we living in San Francisco...Here nobody speak Chinese...I interview for receptionist, they tell me my English not good enough. Nowhere I can find work. Nobody to watch the baby.” She probably had postpartumadj. 产后的adv. 在产后) depression, at the very least, Mia realized, perhaps even a postpartum psychotic break. The baby wouldn’t nurse, and her milk had dried up. She had lost her job--a minimum-wage post packing Styrofoam cups into cartons--when she’d gone into the hospital to have the baby, and had no money for formula. At last--and this was the part that Mia felt could not be a coincidence--she had, in desperation, gone to a fire station and left her baby on the doorstep.

Two policemen had found Bebe several days later, lying under a park bench, unconscious from dehydration and hunger. They’d brought her to a shelter, where she’d been showered, fed, prescribed antidepressants, and released three weeks later. But by then no one could tell her what had happened to her baby...No one would help her. When you left her, you terminated your rights, the police told her. Sorry...

Mia feels empathy for Bebe, as she knows Bebe has gotten her life back together and is searching for her daughter. Mia cannot imagine someone ever separating a mother from her child. She hugs her own daughter, Pearl, tightly and reflects on motherhood. Celeste Ng writes,

To a parent, your child wasn’t just a person: your child was a place, a kind of

Narnia, a vast eternal place where the present you were living and the past you

remembered and the future you longed for all existed at once. You could see it every time you looked at her: layered in her face was the baby she’d been and the child she’d become and the adult she would grow to be, and you saw them all simultaneously, like a 3-D image. It made your head spin. It was a place you could take refuge, if you knew how to get in. And each time you left it, each time your child passed out of your sight, you feared you might never be able to return to that place again.


Thus, Mia makes the decision to call Bebe and let her know that her daughter has been found, even though she is aware of the trouble she will cause in Shaker Heights.

 

Wrap-Up

Thank you for participating in ThinkTank Learning’s Reading Group! I look forward to chatting with you in our next episode, when we’ll discuss chapters 10 through 13 of Little Fires Everywhere.

In the meantime, we invite you to share your responses to this episode’s reflection questions and pronunciation practice.

Optional Reflection Question

First up is multiple choice. Do you remember the answer to these questions? You can find the answer in the episode.

1. Why does Izzy ask her mother to investigate (or search for more information about) Mia Warren?

a. Izzy is obsessed with Mia and wants to learn everything about her.

b. Pearl, Moody, Izzy, and Lexie saw a photo of Mia in the museum and want to know why it was there.

c. Mia is behaving suspiciously about the new baby that was left at the fire station, and Izzy thinks Mia is somehow involved.

d. Mrs. Richardson can’t stop worrying about Mia, so Izzy finally tells her to “do something” about it by investigating and putting her worries to rest.

2. Why did Bebe leave her baby at the firestation?

a. Bebe wanted to protect her baby from her husband, who was not a good man and who was looking for them.

b. Bebe could not afford to buy medicine for the baby’s medical condition.

c. Bebe’s family was ashamed and would not let her keep the baby.

d. Bebe was desperate because she had lost her job, could not feed the baby, and was very ill.

Now for an open-ended question:

1. Izzy is clearly very different from her parents and siblings. Izzy finds a role model in Mia, who encourages her to “do something” about things that are unfair. Do you think it is good or bad that Izzy is becoming more rebellious? Why?



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