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Thank you We sneak in then here's your shmoop du

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jour brought to you by caravans because their way nicer

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than hate a vans everywhere caribbeans hated All right Checking

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falling fast said eighty five No distinction You are to

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be thirsty in the desert without water We'll sic and

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anti lynching You die well with john and we're just

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gonna all right Read these quotes from the selections These

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guys right here inscription in the desert if unfortunately anyone

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fall sick on the road he must either endure the

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fatigue of traveling on a camel Trouble sending healthy people

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must be left behind on the sand without any assistance

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and remain so till a slow death come to relieve

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him Guys Fun party All right two one shortly die

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You are dai Let others tell you what they please

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I cannot prove erik eight on exact and merciless But

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i love you There is no escape for you All

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right well which statement Best describes the difference in tone

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between the two quotes And they're just party central here

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on thing All right near the potential answers All right

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well here we go Analyzing tone is all about being

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able to recognize the mood of the speaker Is he

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or she feeling good Or does he or she feel

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like we do before we had our coffee in the

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morning and trust as it's not a pretty sight like

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that Or is the speaker's tone somewhere in the middle

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Well option a totally misses the boat first quote might

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be talking about a cruel fate but the tone of

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the speaker isn't necessarily harsh It's more a matter of

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fact really The second part of this option is what

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takes it out of the running For sure there's no

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way that whitman speaker is being indirect when somebody tells

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you that there's no escape for you it's crystal clear

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that he or she means death is on your doorstep

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choice b definitely doesn't make the cut either somebody bringing

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you chicken soup when you're sick is warm and sympathetic

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Somebody describing a slow death in the desert is not

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so be is wrong about the second quote too even

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though whitman speaker describes himself as merciless he immediately tells

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the dying person that he loves him or her so

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either the speaker's playing seriously twisted mind games or he's

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just trying to tell a person he loves a difficult

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truth we're going to go with the latter So there's

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no way we can call this speaker cruel and intimidating

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answer D isn't going to cut it either Does it

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sound like the speaker is trying to apologize for something

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No so there's nothing conciliatory here Also whitman speaker isn't

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exactly optimistic Certain death isn't generally ah hopeful topic that

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just leaves choice See the first quote describes death in

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a detached impersonal way while the second quote delivers the

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news of death in a direct way but with a

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touch of personal warmth This makes us think that maybe

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hallmark has overlooked an entire market What do you think 00:02:52.565 --> [endTime] they're place for Impending death cards Maybe not

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