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The poem that I found the most interesting and fascinating was the poem about Edmund Pollard. In this poem Edmund tells us to live our life to the fullest, and the fact that he is said makes the message all the more interesting. The fact that Edmund is dead makes me want to think that [...]

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I am still laughing over how funny Roger Heston’s poem was. When Mr. Wasserman first told me about this book I thought it was going to be a lot of dead people telling us their lives. But this book is funny, with people like Heston who just have crazy things to tell. Of the two [...]

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The most interesting poem in these few pages is the poem told by George Gray. I liked it the best due to its deep meaning and because it reminded me of Ishmael. The deep meaning in the poem is that you have to live life to the fullest. George Gray did not live his life, [...]

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The poem that I found interesting and funny was the poem of Chase Henry. He was the town drunk during his life, he was so bad that the priest did let him get buried along with the other people. Then he ended up buried next to a banker, and the bankers wife. It just goes [...]

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So Ah’m back home again and Ah’m satisfied to be here . Ah done been to tuh the horizon and back and now Ah can set heah in mah house and live by comparisons.
As soon as I read this quote which is located on page 191 an image of Gatsby looking at the green light [...]

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I have recently been reading the news,but all that I am noticing is that there is so many things wrong with this world. For example there are so many wars, there are so many people dying, and diseases killing people, basically our world is a mess. And through all this I have to wonder where [...]

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In these few chapters Janie once again marries another man, but this time it isn’t for money or any material position. This time Tea Cake represents something she hasn’t had in many years Tea Cake represents change but most of all freedom. And it is this freedom that makes Janie fall in love with Tea [...]

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At first I thought that Chapter six had nothing of significant importance. But after I reread it I noticed that the free mule could symbolize the free blacks. The thing that made me realize this is how Jody is compared to LIncoln and other great heroes. And then the whole mule part of the story [...]

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In these few chapters Janie is victim to bad relationships. And what Hurston is trying to show in these relationships is that there needs to be true love in order for a relationship to succeed. For example even if Logan spoils her, there is no chemistry between them; Janie was forced onto him. And then [...]

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I don’t mind the language at all I got used to it. And I feel that it adds meaning to the book and to the words that are spoken. I admit that in Chapter one it tool me a while to get used to the language, I had to read a few sentences over, but [...]

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