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1. Why was Rocky disappointed when he visited Walden Pond?

When Rocky was at Harvard, he had gone out to Walden Pond. The place had disappointed him. It seemed tame and manicured like a city park. Reading about Walden Pond, he had thought it would be a frontier and a rough and wild place.

2. On Rocky's first walk after his wife died, what did he find?

After Rocky's wife died, he went out on one of his walks. There had been a freeze the night she died. Then he found her footprint. Lou had died from polio in eight months. For the first three months, she had walked with canes, and for the last five, she did not walk at all. Rocky felt that the land had saved it for him.

3. Why does Rocky's ranch have a bell tower?

When Lou came West and married him, she made it a condition of their marriage that he build a bell tower for her like the one her mother had in her native village back in France. The bell was how you knew you were home. So Rocky built her a huge tower with a bell.

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