Silas Marner

Give a detail account of what happened un chapter v and vi of silas manner

What happened un chapter five and six(with détails)

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Chapter 5

Marner, it turns out, had just stepped out of his cottage to walk down to the village for a piece of twine he needed to complete a commission. Those who live lives as monotonous as Marner's cannot imagine that anything really bad will happen to them in the course of their routine, so he leaves his door unlocked. Marner reenters his room without noticing anything unusual; the cottage is warm from the fire, with meat hanging on its thread over the fire. He decides to sup with his gold coins heaped on the table before him, like friends come to share his meal.

When Marner finds his gold missing, he at first is spellbound. In a desperate panic he glances around the room, thinking that maybe, for some reason, he placed his coins elsewhere. After believing with all his might that his coins must be somewhere, he finally acquiesces to the irrevocable truth of their absence and lets out "a wild ringing scream" of desolate despair.

His first, instinctive refuge-as in the case of his betrayal by William-is the loom, at which Marner begins working desperately as his only available assurance of reality. While he gathers his thread, Marner gathers his thoughts, and for the first time the notion of a thief comes to him. Because a thief can be caught, Marner clings to this thought avidly. He accuses Jem Rodney in his mind, simply because Jem had spent more time with him than anyone else had. Marner rushes out into the rainy night and makes for the Rainbow, thinking that he will find help there from Raveloe's more important inhabitants.