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Texas EOC English I: Understanding and Analysis of Literary Texts Drill 3, Problem 2
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Thank you We sneak in and here's your shmoop du
- 00:05
jour brought to you by a portmanteau which is much
- 00:09
nicer than a harry manto it's Really gross get clippers
- 00:14
for those things Like what is that people Big foot
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Maybe All right we're reading we're reading you know on
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- 00:20
a coach and horses more dead than alive It's dark
- 00:24
All right yep Bristol by things parlor Can i take
- 00:29
your hand and i prefer to keep them up all
- 00:34
right we'll read the following description from paragraph one Rat
- 00:37
chair Snow had piled itself against his shoulders and chest
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and added a white crest to the burden he carried
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heavy Well the author uses the white crest and the
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burden he carried into description about teo Do what And
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here the potential answer Okay well if the answer doesn't
- 00:59
jump right out at us it's best to take another
- 01:00
look at the passage is one might trick us that
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we don't have a solid memory of what went down
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in the first paragraph Yeah well for example choice a
- 01:10
claims that h g wells wants us to feel How
- 01:12
heavy the strangers luggage is huh When we see the
- 01:16
word burden well we might be fooled but the first
- 01:19
sense of the paragraph tells us that the strangers on
- 01:21
li carrying a little black portmanteau well if you didn't
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know a portmanteau is kind of suitcase And since this
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one's a little guy we know the stranger doesn't have
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too much luggage Yes the stranger believes in traveling light
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It is perfect All right Options He's Probably right on
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some level There's no doubt the stranger is glad to
- 01:39
be in out of the blizzard and eaten some of
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mrs hall's famous Now whatever she's famous for over this
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is not the reason that wells mentions the strangers burdens
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and snowy shoulders H g is up to something cooler
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here B isn't a totally ridiculous answer The white crest
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of snow does show how miserable the strangers walk from
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the train station wass Unless the white crest is dan
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drift but get the streams with benefit of the doubt
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their thank you head and shoulders Ultimately option d is
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the best answer The sentence from the passage reads The
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snow had piled itself against his shoulders and chest and
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added a white crest to the burden he carried Got
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it Wells doesn't tell us what the mysterious burden is
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so we're basically left toe wonder about this guy's secret
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issues even though the title of the novel just kind
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of gives away at least one major problem This guy 00:02:32.175 --> [endTime] has right
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