The Miserable Mill Chapter Summary & Analysis - Chapter 11 Summary

Chapter 11 Summary

Violet and Sunny walk into the library and pick up Dr. Orwell's book, Advanced Ocular Science. Right away, Violet can tell that she has no easy task in front of her. The book is written in overly complicated language and worse, it is extremely long. Violet goes through the index and finds a chapter on "Hypnosis and Mind Control," on page 927. Thankful that she didn't have to read 926 pages to find the information she needed, she turns right to the chapter. The chapter is just like the beginning of the book and it is almost impossible for Violet to decipher what is contained within.

She wishes that Klaus were there, since he is the researcher of the family and has an enormous vocabulary. Even a dictionary would be helpful, but there aren't any to be found in the under-stocked library. Violet devises a system of replacing all the...
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