Let It Snow - Analyzing and Connecting

1. When the school closes because of the snow, the children are more exposed to their mother and her problems.

2. Looking back on it, it seems the narrator finds the concept to be amusing but at the time had thought it to be the most brilliant solution ever to be thought.

3. Written without humor would likely result in the reader becoming angry and unforgiving towards the mother and even annoyed with the siblings for being willing to sacrifice their sister for themselves, loosing the effect of a family overcoming their problems.

4. A similar situation was likely to arise but for the time being the family was in harmony again.

Summary

The children at one time lived in New York were there was always snow but then moved to North Carolina where the snow rarely stayed. When it does they are stuck in the house with their mother who becomes stressed and kicks them out of the house for a day. The children try to make the best of the situation by going to play with friends but when they return home find themselves still locked out with the mother ignoring them. As it gets colder outside, they try to think of a solution, finally settling on having the youngest sister lay in the street to be hit by a car. A neighbor catches them and tells the mother who comes to find them and takes them back home.