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Littmus is Miss Franny’s great-grandfather and the inventor of the Littmus Lozenge. He fought in the Civil War when he was just a teenager and learned quickly that though he went into it with an idealized vision of what war was about, war is actually terrible and demoralizing. Littmus lost every other member of his family over the course of the war, but he decided to focus on putting sweetness into the world. This inspired him to create the Littmus Lozenge: the candy is sweet, but the secret ingredient is sorrow. The candy’s production made the Block family extremely wealthy.
Littmus W. Block Quotes in Because of Winn-Dixie
The Because of Winn-Dixie quotes below are all either spoken by Littmus W. Block or refer to Littmus W. Block. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 16 Quotes
“And the army took him, and Littmus went off to war, just like that. Left behind his mother and three sisters. He went off to be a hero. But he soon found out the truth.” Miss Franny closed her eyes and shook her head.
“What truth?” I asked her.
“Why, that war is hell,” Miss Franny said with her eyes still closed. “Pure hell.”
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Chapter 17 Quotes
I ate my Littmus Lozenge slow. It tasted good. It tasted like root beer and strawberry and something else I didn’t have a name for, something that made me feel kind of sad. I looked over at Amanda. She was sucking on her candy and thinking hard.
“Do you like it?” Miss Franny asked me.
“Yes ma’am,” I told her.
“What about you, Amanda? Do you like the Littmus Lozenge?”
“Yes ma’am,” she said. “But it makes me think of things I feel sad about.”
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Littmus W. Block Character Timeline in Because of Winn-Dixie
The timeline below shows where the character Littmus W. Block appears in Because of Winn-Dixie. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 15
...of it, but she has heard of the Civil War. Miss Franny says her great-grandfather, Littmus W. Block, fought in the war as a boy, and that’s a story. Opal asks...
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Chapter 16
Miss Franny says that her great-grandfather, Littmus W. Block, was 14 when the Civil War broke out. He was big and strong,...
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Miss Franny says that Littmus came out of the war a changed man. He walked from Virginia home to Georgia,...
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Chapter 17
Miss Franny continues that Littmus was all alone. He sat down on what used to be the front porch and...
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...her head and says that the world is filled with sorrow. Miss Franny says that Littmus made a fortune because he was able to put sadness in the candy. Opal asks...
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Chapter 18
...sad, but Opal explains that it’s supposed to taste that way. She tells the preacher Littmus’s story and how he invented Littmus Lozenges. Winn-Dixie starts eating the candy wrapper and refuses...
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