When Calls The Heart Summary

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When Calls the Heart
When Calls the Heart is a amazing Dramatic Western written by Janette Oke. T, this book is 220 pages long. The book is full of great excitement and adventure. This book has a lot of detail, and you feel like you’re in the story. Elizabeth Thatcher is a young teacher who moves to the west to teach but endures many challenges.
Elizabeth moves to a place called Pine Springs to a new teaching post. She faces many problems and finds a man named Wynn Delaney and at the end of this book and they are soon to be married.
Elizabeth Thatcher is a rich woman who is always wearing nice clothes and has nice hair. She is moving a far way out in the west, pretty far away from civilization. Elizabeth is a more calm and elegant person
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Another way Elizabeth followed her heart was when she stayed, even though people made fun of her and said she wouldn’t be able to live in the west with no civilization. Summary This book starts with a girl named Elizabeth Thatcher who is currently a teacher working at the school where she lives. Elizabeth got a letter from her brother Jonathan, which he lives in Calgary. She opened the letter with excitement and it said, “We need teachers here to teach in Calgary. The teaching position is yours if you want it. You will have to come here to Calgary to have an interview with the superintendent.” After days of critical thinking she thought and thought if she should go to the West. She finally came to a point where she decided she should go. Jonathan, Elizabeth’s brother had passed the word onto the superintendent, Mr. Higgins, that, Elizabeth was willing to take the job. Elizabeth spent days packing for her long trip to the west. In a couple of days she got on the train to go to Calgary. Elizabeth was going to live with her brother whom she hadn’t seen in years. Jonathan, his wife, Mary, and four kids were willing to let Elizabeth live with …show more content…
The day Elizabeth arrived in Calgary, Jonathan was waiting to take her home to meet her nieces and nephew for the first time. They were very heartwarming to her and nice they were great. Mr. Higgins was the superintendent of the school Elizabeth was going to teach at. Elizabeth and Mr.Higgins had an interview and he gave Elizabeth the job. There was a problem. Mr. Higgins wanted to marry Elizabeth, she thought it was outrages. And so for revenge Mr. Higgins sent Elizabeth to a different teaching post 100 miles away from Calgary to a place called Pine Springs. Jonathan took Elizabeth to the train station where she was soon to leave but first she had to run to the store. When she came back out of the store with her things Jonathan was talking to a man. Elizabeth could not stop thinking about this man. When Elizabeth arrived in Pine Springs she soon got settled into her teacherage where she was to live. Soon school was to start and she had a lot to do to prepare for the beginning of school, which was in a couple of weeks. At first she didn’t like it there. Then she really started to love it there. But people always made fun of her that she was rich and wouldn’t survive the west. Especially without civilization. But now that she like it there she was going to stay true to her

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