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ELA Drills, Beginner: Point of View 3. Which sentence in the passage best shows the narrator's point of view on the topic of Chelsea Simpson?
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- 00:04
here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by
- 00:06
firecrackers for when you want to get someone's attention but saying hello [Man throws firecracker at a woman reading a book]
- 00:11
seems way too boring yeah... alright take a look at the
- 00:15
following passage Chelsea Simpson had been my next-door neighbor for years she
- 00:19
always had been mean to me she once even shoved a firecracker in my mailbox
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- 00:22
while I was on vacation. Despite all this, I felt sorry for her parents were never home she had
- 00:26
no friends huh okay here's our question which sentence in the passage best shows
- 00:30
the narrator's point of view on the topic of Chelsea Simpson and here are our
- 00:34
potential answers alright Chelsea what you're doing to us, oh Chelsea girl... So to
- 00:39
pick the right sentence we really need to figure out the narrator's point of [Man squeezing piece of paper]
- 00:42
view let's see if we can ring the point of view out of the passage without
- 00:46
getting it on the rug.. So let's take another look at what the
- 00:50
passage is all about and see if we can figure out where Chelsea's neighbors are
- 00:53
coming from... As we read it we see some things that suggest the author might
- 00:57
just hate Chelsea's guts there's all that stuff about how she was always mean [Chelsea throws a firecracker]
- 01:02
to them and infamous firecracker incident which probably didn't earn her
- 01:05
any personality points with the mailman either however despite these actions we [Mailman holding a hot letter]
- 01:09
also see that the narrator isn't filled with hatred but rather with pity how do
- 01:14
we know our narrator comes right out and says it see right here I felt sorry for
- 01:18
her looks like our pal Chelsea doesn't have the greatest home life and she's [Boys throwing a ball and Chelsea trying to catch it]
- 01:21
not super popular with her peers, so it kind of makes sense that she would act
- 01:25
out and that our narrator would understand why..we hear the mailman is
- 01:28
still waiting on a handwritten apology oh he's coming for ya now... So all we need to [Mailman goes to mail a letter and dog chases him]
- 01:33
do is pick the sentence that's all about how sorry the narrator felt for Chelsea
- 01:38
well, looking at our options that sentence is none other than C so that's our
- 01:42
answer and hey if you ever feel sorry for someone it's not a bad idea to give [Man gives girl a present]
- 01:46
them a gift just maybe not of firecrackers your mailman will thank you
- 01:53
you
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