Consider the main characters from the stolen day and the night the bed fell in a paragraph discuss which character learns the most and which one learns to the least use details from the selections to support your ideas use the reading selections to you answer the question

the word that best matches the meaning of the expression "went to the big ocean" is died.

the goldfish died, which is why the father looks at the children mournfully. the "big ocean" is the father's way of saying fish heaven. he could have just said that the goldfish died, but this way, the children imagine the fish in a bigger, better place instead of just picturing a dead fish.

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