![]() 'an excessively or blindly optimistic person. So cheerful that her name survives in any standard American Dictionary. Pollyanna was an irrepressibly, cheerful child. The "Pollyanna principle" means people say yes to positive statements (For example, instead of "What do you think of green?", you can say "Don't you agree that green is a nice colour?"). If someone is called "Pollyanna", it means they are always happy like Pollyanna is. But then a terrible accident threatens to ruin Pollyanna's game forever, and everyone wonders who can teach this little girl to be happy again. Soon, everyone in town is happier, and glad that Pollyanna came into their lives - everyone, that is, but Aunt Polly. But Pollyanna is a very special little girl, with a very special game that she teaches to the townspeople. So it is only a sense of duty that causes her to open her home to Pollyanna, her newly orphaned niece. Miss Polly Harrington is known around town for being a stern, hard woman who is set in her ways. She has to learn to be happy again, and then she gets better because a doctor makes her well again. An accident occurs and Pollyanna is left unable to move her legs. She plays a game called the "glad game", where you find something to be happy about even when you are sad. Pollyanna is happy all the time, and makes other people happy. ![]() ![]() ![]() She goes to live with her Aunt Polly (who did not marry) in Beldingsville, Vermont. ‘Well, really, Nancy, just because I happened to have a sister who was silly enough to marry and bring unnecessary children into a world that was already quite full enough, I can’t see how I should particularly WANT to have the care of them myself. Pollyanna-The game Story Ī girl called Pollyanna is an orphan (her parents are dead). Pollyanna 6 of294 Miss Polly lifted her chin haughtily. Pollyanna is a book for children written by Eleanor Hodgman Porter. ![]()
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