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

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jour brought to you by the ungraceful phantom of life

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We wish it were as deep as it sounds Check

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out the following passage from the trembling of a leaf

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somerset mom that's how you pronounce it like you're the

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one who gave birth to you Yeah I'm gonna beat

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your hand any lyman's Ulysses pacific is the leg you

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sail way Alright then we got moby dick by herman

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melville here mind greeks is every evening until lamenting in

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what ways do the speakers in the two passages view

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the ocean from a similar perspective and hear the potential

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answers ocean similar perspective other than that it's wet two

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great authors to great passengers what will happen when worlds

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collide Tune in it all right Option d doesn't totally

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grasp the situation While we could say that the first

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speaker describes the ocean is unpredictable the second speaker doesn't

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say anything about the ocean being unchanging Choice b doesn't

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get it either Well it gets that the second speaker

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admires the ocean however saying that the first speaker fears

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the ocean has gone a little too far German speaker

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says that the ocean can fill people with a vague

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for voting but he also says that it fills us

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with an intolerable desire for life so the first passage

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is actually saying that the ocean makes us feel a

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ton of things at the same time sounds exhausting Next

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vacation we're heading to the desert option is totally wrong

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These authors clearly view the ocean from a similar perspective

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They should go together on an author's cruise our money's

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on melville for the harpoon throwing contest There's no doubt

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about it Option c is the correct answer The speaker

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and mom's passage describes the way the stormy seas caused

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impatience for the unknown and a drive for adventure Meanwhile

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the speaker in melville's novel describes how people are drawn

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to the ocean and explains that the image we see

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reflected in it is the ungraceful ble phantom of life

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yeah that's where that came from This sounds like a

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lot of not knowing us way Maybe we should watch 00:02:04.99 --> [endTime] this video again

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