Iza's Ballad - Part II: Fire, Chapter 5 Summary & Analysis

Magda Szabo
This Study Guide consists of approximately 63 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Iza's Ballad.

Iza's Ballad - Part II: Fire, Chapter 5 Summary & Analysis

Magda Szabo
This Study Guide consists of approximately 63 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Iza's Ballad.
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Summary

Terez and Iza both, independently, decide to try new ways to help Ettie. Terez asks her to do the shopping, and this helps them to form a closer relationship as Ettie is happy to be of some use. During a heatwave, in which Ettie becomes too weak to do the shopping for a number of days, however, she realizes that Terez is able to finish work earlier by doing the shopping herself and comes to the conclusion that Terez has only been acting out of pity. She declines to go back to doing the shopping after the heatwave and reverts to sitting in her chair or walking the streets. Iza decides to set aside time each evening to spend with her mother, and this quickly becomes one of the highlights of Ettie's day. One evening though, Ettie hears Iza on the...

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