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"And it's a measly manner of existence. To get on that subway on the hot mornings in summer. To devote your whole life to keeping stock, or making phone calls, or selling or buying. To suffer fifty weeks of the year for the sake of a two-week vacation, when all you really desire to be outdoors, with your shirt off. And always to have to get ahead of the next fella. And still-thats how you build a future." (Miller 1286) This quote explains life and "careers" exactly how I believe. I can really relate to this.

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Piercy's "Barbie Doll" is a sad depiction of the ridiculous expectations society put on young girls and women. It is no wonder that some young ladies are so insecure in this day and age.

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"We Real Cool" is an extremely short poem that tells so much. This poem gives the story of the quick lives of the students who are too cool for school.

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"I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong." This line from Auden's "Funeral Blues" is extremely sad and it is terrible that people have to go such misery.

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When Collins says, "but all they want to do is tie the poem to a chair with rope and torture a confession out of it" one really understands how he feels about how people do not take time to figure out what they are reading for themselves. (Collins 581)

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In the story it sounds like the Father might be stern. I think that is what it means when the narrator says, "...the chronic angers of the house."(Hayden 571) However, his father seems to take care of him: warming up the house and polishing the boy's shoes.

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This was an unusual story, but I liked how Aimee Bender, the author, used some fairytale features in her story to describe her emotions.

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I would much rather win the power ball than be picked for the lottery in Shirley Jackson's short story. How barbaric.

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Phoenix Jackson faces a rather grueling task of traveling to through the woods all the way to town. However, she loves her grandson very much and makes the journey.

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Erdrich really makes you feel the sadness of Lyman when his brother returns changed. One cannot help but want them to mend their relationship.

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Victor in Sherman Alexie's "Indian education" says, "why should we organize a reservation high school reunion? My graduating class has a reunion every weekend at the Powwow Tavern." Victor overcame the discrimination and other setbacks and becomes the valedictorian of his school.

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It is a sad thing when someone loses their sanity. I could not imagine going through that or someone I know going through that. That is creepy that she laid in bed with her decomposing boyfriend.

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"No, nothing would please her. "They'll always be sliding off my nose!" Miss Brill had wanted to shake her" (Mansfield 258). This quote made me laugh because every once in a while I find myself hearing people complain about things and get really annoyed.

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Thinking about Brownies fighting each other reminds me of this scene from "The Pacifier."

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The little scout girl ti up the bad boys XD

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This line from "The Chaser" would have made me nervous: "Here is a liquid as colorless as as water, almost tasteless, quite imperceptible in coffee, wine, or any other beverage. It is also quite imperceptible to any known method of autopsy" (3). I think I would have been on my way out the door if I had heard that. However, the ability to make someone love me unconditionally would be quite tempting.