Sammanfattning av Germinal, Chapter 2

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1. At four, Catherine struggles awake and rouses Zacharie and Jeanlin in the crowded bedroom.
2. The children dress, quarrel, and discuss their neighbors, whose private lives are audible through thin walls.
3. Maheu and Maheude discuss inadequate earnings, debts, and the six days remaining before payday.
4. Catherine divides the remaining bread into four sandwiches and makes weak coffee from used grounds.
5. Maheude tells the workers to take the bread, while Catherine leaves warm soup for Bonnemort.
6. Catherine, Maheu, Zacharie, and Jeanlin join other miners walking through the cold toward the Voreux.

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Maheude’s response follows a discussion of hunger and debt. Darkness offers no solution, but her words express the weight of her worry.

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