Part Five: Ann Summary

Chapter 10, Home, recounts scenes from Ann's earlier life on Lime Kiln Road. Adele and her best friend Lolly take four-year-old Ann shopping in Milwaukee with them. Ann sees a pair of sparkly red shoes exactly like her mother's and wants them. Adele tells her she cannot have the shoes. Returning home, tiny Ann pitches a fit and demands the red shoes. When she is told she cannot have them, Ann runs away from home, walking across the yard. Adele drags her screaming daughter back, injuring her on the way. Later that night, Adele gives Ann the red shoes, which she had bought while they were still in Milwaukee. Then Adele takes Ann on a drive to the orphanage. Sitting outside the forbidding gray building, Adele tells her daughter that if Ann does not behave, Adele will abandon her and...