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Okay aspiring reading people last one in the country The

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point infers Yeah we know you're going to miss this

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passage Think about the proceeding passage as you read the

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following excerpt This excerpt is narrated by pip who has

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returned to his hometown for his sister's funeral pocket handkerchiefs

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out all cried mr Trap at this point in a

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depressed business like voice pocket handkerchiefs out We are ready

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so we all put our pocket handkerchiefs to our faces

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as if our noses were bleeding and filed out two

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and two and joe and i biddy in humble chuck

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mr And mrs Hubbell the remains of my poor sister

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had been brought round by the kitchen door and it

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being a point of undertaking ceremony that the six bearers

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must be stifled and blinded under ah horrible black velvet

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housing with a white border The whole looked like a

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blind monster with twelve human legs shuffling and blundering along

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under the guidance of two keepers the post boy in

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his comrade The neighborhood however highly approved of these arrangements

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and we were much admired as we went through the

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village The more youthful and vigorous part of the community

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making dashes now and then to cut us off and

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lying in wait to intercept us at points of vantage

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from great expectations Remember that alright we'll compare here the

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way that the narrator in the passage from the country

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of the pointed furs and the narrator in the excerpt

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from great expectations describe each funeral procession providing details from

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the passage in the excerpt described one similarity and one

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difference One difference between the two narrators is their involvement

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in the funeral procession The narrator in the country of

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the pointed first describes the walking funeral at she observes

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it from a distance but the narrator in great expectations

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participates in the procession The two are similar in that

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they view the processions as strange in some way the

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narrator in the passage says the little procession in the

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foreground looked feudal and helpless on the edge of the

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rocky shore and the narrator in the excerpt says that

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the bearers looked like a blind monster with twelve human

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legs Well let's see we're going to break this down

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What do you think It's not hard to pick up

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on pips Disapproval you know horrible black velvet and blind

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monster there they don't sound very positive After all the

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narrator in the country of the pointed furs is a

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bit more ambivalent about the procession However the paragraph that

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says the procession looked futile and helpless and disappeared from

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the great landscape as if it had gone into a

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cave Well that suggest that she thinks the whole thing

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seems off odd The major difference is that the narrator

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in the passage is just watching While pip is actually

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part of the pall bearing parade trysting that five times

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fast without spitting ah full scoring response clearly states one

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significant difference between the two narratives and one similar and

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draw specific and relevant details from the passage and excerpt

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to support the claims of difference and similarity and know

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well we think we did that we're done with the 00:02:55.533 --> [endTime] furs

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