Sod Houses of the 1800s

Friday, December 9, 2011

Chapter Twenty-four

On page 159, in his letter to Sam, Grandpa said, "And much as I want you here, home with Grandma and me, we can't have your new life in a new land blighted because of a plague of locusts."

What do you think "blighted" means?  Why do you think that?
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  1. AnonymousDecember 10, 2011 at 12:30 PM

    I think "blighted" means contaminated or diseased. The locusts could have carried diseases so therefore it is contaminated by locusts.

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  2. AnonymousDecember 10, 2011 at 4:32 PM

    Maybe blighted means diseased because I remember that my brother told me that grasshoppers have a certain disease in them so that's why I think it means diseased.

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  3. Tyler CaluneoDecember 10, 2011 at 7:48 PM

    I think "blighted meas forgotten because they were thinking of forgetting their new life.

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  4. Tyler CaluneoDecember 10, 2011 at 7:49 PM

    Sorry, I forgot a pair of quotation marks.

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  5. AnonymousDecember 11, 2011 at 1:47 PM

    I think that "blighted" means diseased or forgotten because of the grasshoppers now has diseases in them.

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