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Learning Task 3: Digging the Circumstances
Directions: Answer the given questions below based on your understanding of the text, be sure to explain each item
and write in complete sentences. Write your answer in your answer sheet.
1. What is Johnsy's illness?
What is the cause of her illness?
3.
What do you think made Johnsy consider that her possible death would be simultaneous when the last leaf fall?
What is its connection to her illness?
4. What helps Johusy recover from her illness? Do you think it is psychological in nature? Why?
5. To whom does Johnsy's analogy of the death of the vine happen? Is it really connected to how people endure
life and face the most difficult challenge of one's surpassing death? Explain.
6 How does Mr. Behrman emphasize the connection of Johnsy's faith to be healed with the vine's ability to hold
the leaf (based on Johnsy's point of view)?​