![]() Of course, the mirror and the ice are loaded with symbolism and significance in the story. Reunited, Gerda and Kay return home, growing up together and yet retaining their childlike innocence, as spring turns into summer. His tears wash out the grain of glass from the magic mirror that was lodged in his eye, and he returns to his old self. When Gerda sings a song they both know, he recognises her, and bursts into tears. Upset, Gerda cries warm tears that drop onto the frozen Kay, and seep through to his heart, thawing it. Gerda turns up and recognises Kay instantly despite his changed appearance, but he sits still and cold and unresponsive. The Snow Queen flies away to warmer countries, deserting Kay. Kay is nearly blue with cold, and it’s only the Snow Queen’s attention to him that keeps him from freezing. ![]() The only way to free him from it is to remove the shard of the magic mirror that has turned his heart to ice. With the help of a reindeer, a Lapp woman (from Lapland) and a Finn woman (from Finland), Gerda travels north to the colder parts of Scandinavia, until she reaches the palace of the Snow Queen, where the Snow Queen has Kay under her spell. The robber girl helps to free Gerda from the castle. There she meets a little robber girl, whose doves tell Gerda that Kay was taken by the Snow Queen to her palace further north. The woman, who Addie thought was crazy, had told Addie she was her Christmas angel.However, Gerda is captured by robbers, and taken to their castle. Addie tracked down the person who purchased the pig and discovered an elderly lady whom she had waited on earlier that day at Starbucks. At the pet store, Addie learned Nathan had accidentally already sold the pig. In order to prove she has learned her lesson, Addie went to Pet World to pick up Tegan’s new pet pig, even though Nathan, a boy whom Addie did not like, worked there. In “the patron saint of pigs,” Addie has to learn the hard lesson that everything was not always about her. ![]() At the restaurant, however, Tobin realized he was more interested in the Duke than the cheerleaders. Believing he was in the middle of heaven, Keun had shared his good luck with Tobin and invited him to come as well. The cheerleaders had walked from the train to the Waffle House where Tobin’s friend Keun was working. Fourteen cheerleaders on their way to a competition had also been on the train on which Jubilee had been riding. On a Christmas Eve night trek through a blizzard, Tobin noticed the Duke was increasingly frustrated by his references to cheerleaders. In “a cheertastic christmas miracle,” the Duke and Tobin had always been close despite the fact she was a girl and he was a boy. Jubilee never expected the walk from the train to a nearby Waffle House would lead her to a new love. Instead of getting to Florida, however, the train was caught in a blizzard near a town called Gracetown. In “the jubilee express,” the authors do not capitalize chapter titles, when Jubilee’s parents were arrested Christmas Eve for being part of a riot, Jubilee had to take a train to her grandparents’ house in Florida. A bad snowstorm has hit the area changing the landscape and causing the train on which Jubilee, along with fourteen cheerleaders from Pennsylvania are riding. The stories are set in Gracetown beginning Christmas Eve night. ![]() Three interconnected love stories in the novel Let It Snow: Three Holiday Stories by Maureen Johnson, John Green and Lauren Myracle, combine a blizzard, cheerleaders, broken hearts and girl-crazy guys to result in unlikely Christmas miracles. The following version of the novel was used to create this study guide: Green, John Myracle, Lauren Johnson, Maureen.
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