Pippi Longstocking – Chapter 4 – Pippi Goes to School

	Pippi Longstocking – Chapter 4 – Pippi Goes to School Sequence of Events (Cause and Effect).
01	Cause (Why it happened)	Effect (What happened)
	Tommy and Annika decide school would be much more fun with Pippi there.	They set about trying to persuade her to come with them one day.
	Cause (Why it happened)	Effect (What happened)
02	Pippi is convinced to join them when she realizes that they, in attending school, get Christmas vacation, which she, by not attending school, does not. (Pippi's logic.)	The next day, Pippi rides her horse to school (on her own timetable, of course, arriving after 10 a.m., not at 8 a.m.
02	Cause (Why it happened)	Effect (What happened)
	Pippi got late for school, however, the teacher welcomes Pippi, but has trouble engaging her in her studies, so to speak.	Pippi is very talkative and does not show good manners. She finds out that there is no Christmas vacation at school.
03	Cause (Why it happened)	Effect (What happened)
	When asked what seven and five are, Pippi replies, "Well if you don't know that yourself, you needn't think I'm going to tell you."	Things escalate from there, with the teacher trying every subject and tactic she can think of to no avail.
04	Cause (Why it happened)	Effect (What happened)
	Teacher asked Pippi to draw pictures. She wants to draw her horse, she fills her paper and resorts to drawing all around on the floor.	She drew the horse on the floor because, according to her thoughts, she could not have fit her whole horse on her paper, anyway.
05	Cause (Why it happened)	Effect (What happened)
	At singing time, Pippi decides to take a nap during class.	Later on, the teacher dismisses the whole class and talked to Pippi alone.
06	Cause (Why it happened)	Effect (What happened)
	Pippi is very surprised to find that the teacher thinks she has behaved badly in class.	The teacher softens when Pippi explains that it is hard for a girl who has sailed on the ocean her whole life and whose mother is an angel and whose father is a cannibal king to know how to behave in school.
07	Cause (Why it happened)	Effect (What happened)
	The teacher suggests that perhaps Pippi should try school again… when she is older, and Pippi smiles and gives her a gold watch.	Pippi rides away, but before she did it, she told all the children in the schoolyard tales of school in Argentina, where according to Pippi, school is only in session for about two weeks of the year and there are no lessons.