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"My Mother Never Worked"
Bonnie Smith-Yackel
- What type of introduction does Smith-Yackel employ? Is it effective?
- Is dialogue used? To what end? How would the essay be different if the dialogue were left out?
- What types of transitions does the author use to show the passage of time?
- Is the narrative developed in chronological order, a flashback, a frame, or something else? Is this effective?
- Do you see examples of the use of any of the twenty literary terms you studied over the summer? Give specific examples and discuss their effectiveness.
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| GalletaMonstrous | Question #2 | 0 | Sep 14 2007, 8:32 AM EDT by GalletaMonstrous | |
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This essay was began with a set of dialog between a young man, and an operator. I beleive that the whole story line is based on that dialog and the story would not be nearly as catching without it. This tells the main points of the story.
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| ajeanc17 | Answer to #3 | 0 | Sep 14 2007, 8:29 AM EDT by ajeanc17 | |
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What types of transitions does the author use to show the passage of time? She takes thoughts about her mother and past events that showed what kind of person she was. She takes a specific thought about how her mother was afraid to get married because of the events it required from her, and goes on to discuss how her father finally persuaded her to set a date.
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| Love4run | hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm..... | 1 | Sep 14 2007, 8:28 AM EDT by Love4run | |
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In Smith Yackel's essay, She starts it out with a quotation. The introduction is very effective because of how it starts out in present day then when the body of the essay starts it goes back to when the woman was a kid and she discripes how hard the woman worked as a mother and wife.
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| LucasPammer12 | TJ's comment?? | 0 | Sep 14 2007, 8:25 AM EDT by LucasPammer12 | |
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Doesn't TJ's comment sort of cover number one as well?
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| RickieRose | Question # 1 | 0 | Sep 14 2007, 8:24 AM EDT by RickieRose | |
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The author of "My Mother Never Worked" has a strong introduction, ending, and all around story. The beginning has an interesting introduction. When she starts the story at first it is sort of confusing, because you don't think she is going to go into a big sha-bang of her mother's life. In the beginning she is talking to a social secruity office trying to get money, but they won't give it to her. After the story went on I figured out why the story needed to start like that. In order to understand her mother and the way she lived her whole life made the beginning and the ending very well written.
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