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“I am walking across the world. I am retracing the vanished footsteps of the ancestors who made the planet ours. And today, wherever I wander, it is often children who hail me first. They wave from fields of ripe wheat in Turkey. Or grin from village doorways in Georgia. Or shout hello from a passing bus in Palestine.”

I really enjoyed reading this piece of text as it transported me into the lens that Paul was looking through, I liked how he noticed all those little things that he encountered that really shaped his thinking. The expressive language described the places and the situations he was in and made me feel like I was walking through the fields of turkey, strolling through the villages of Georgia or passing a bus in Palestine.

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"I think about this as I set out from the empty, wind-raked plateaus of the Pamir Mountains of Tajikistan."

This sentence made what he was describing very detailed and really to the point of what he was trying to get across. The mountains were described in great detail using adjectives, telling the reader what he is experiencing at that moment in time when he visited the Mountains of Tajikistan.

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"I am retracing the vanished footsteps of the ancestors who made the planet ours."

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"I am retracing the vanished footsteps of the ancestors who made the planet ours."

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I like this sentence because it describes how people have shaped the world long before us. Their footsteps are invisible but we know that we build upon their shoulders. I like how the sentence is short but has a lot of meaning behind it.
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"I am retracing the vanished footsteps of the ancestors who made the planet ours."

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"I am retracing the vanished footsteps of the ancestors who made the planet ours."

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It is really interesting how he gave the footsteps of the ancestors some personification . This sentence also connects to us to the earth from the part 'made the planet ours'.

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·      “That is, he conjures the startling novelty of the first Stone Age baby born, through a sheer accident of genetics, with all the faculties we now associate with our clever species”

This sentence describes the development of the human species, and how what we now identify as our cleverest features were actually an error in genetics. The structure of the sentence was very enticing, and the thought process was evident. The way in which the thoughts were grouped made the sentence easy, yet interesting to read.

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'In our age of fear and wariness of strangers'

I liked this phrase because it showed that in other parts of the world, people live in fear of others because they don’t know what to do but there, they can do what every they wanted without worrying about others. I also really liked this phrase because flows really well.

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o   Retracing the vanished footsteps of the ancestors – The line implies that the ancestors had been through the same pathway, but their steps had vanished over time. This also implies that they are going back and following the steps of their ancestors.

o   Saw-toothed peaks of the Hindu Kush- This line helps us imagine how sharp the peaks on these amazing mountains are. The author hasn’t used the word sharp, over even said mountains, he simply shows this through his creative language and does not directly tell us.

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Footstep 1:

-       "They brim with a thousand questions".

-       "These are places where wisdom comes not only from a classroom but also through lessons offered by nature, through calloused hands".

-        "He stood gravely, confidently, potbellied, and naked as the day he was born, with his right hand outstretched in bold greeting on an antique street corner: a welcoming king, a pasha, a khan."

-        "As I walk the world, I think of the children who blazed the trail before me."

-       I liked these 4 sentances as they took me overseas and set the scene and it made me feel what Paul was feeling in that situation. I also liked these sentances as they set the scene and set an image in my mind and put me in Paul’s shoes and made me see this issue in a different perspective.

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“I am walking across the world. I am retracing the vanished footsteps of the ancestors who made the planet ours. And today, wherever I wander, it is often children who hail me first. They wave from fields of ripe wheat in Turkey. Or grin from village doorways in Georgia. Or shout hello from a passing bus in Palestine. Once, two boys threw rocks at me from a hilltop in Jordan. It was a game.”

I liked this section of the paragraph because there is clear contrast in the length of sentences engaging the reader. When it talks about ‘retracing the vanished footsteps’ it sounds as though it is a metaphor but in reality is quite literal.

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"Yet with surprising frequency—in our age of fear and wariness of strangers—kids walk along with me through their small, busy little worlds, down their dusty streets, or across their lush green animal pastures, holding my dangling hand."

I like this sentence because it represents the kids as wide-eyed and hopeful using thoughtful and descriptive language.

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“Curiosity. Imagination. Play. These things have delivered us the world.”I admired how Paul has emphasised the three words; Curiosity, imagination, play. He has added pause to these three words to help us invisualise the meaning attached to them.
Taking the time to slow down form are crazy lives.

How long did this take Paul.

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"These are places where wisdom comes not only from a classroom but also through lessons offered by nature, through calloused hands."

I liked this sentence because it used ordinary words to create extraordinary and unique phrases. Lessons offered by nature can mean that the children learn best through experiences that they gain when they are surrounded by the nature.

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“Yet with surprising frequency—in our age of fear and wariness of strangers—kids walk along with me through their small, busy little worlds, down their dusty streets, or across their lush green animal pastures, holding my dangling hand.”

I liked how he wrote that children walked with him through their town and how often he said it happened but he said it in a way that was poetic and descriptive enough to image but short enough for a sentence.

“I think about this as I set out from the empty, wind-raked plateaus of the Pamir Mountains of Tajikistan, en route for the snowy, saw-toothed peaks of the Hindu Kush, the towering range that guards the frontier of Afghanistan.”

It was interesting how he didn’t use actual adjective and instead use hyphenated words to portray the mountain.

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“kids walk along with me through their small, busy little worlds, down their dusty streets, or across their lush green animal pastures, holding my dangling hand”

I chose this sentence because it describes how the children move in their own world and it describes the different places that they move, and it gives you a sense of what it must be like.

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I learnt that when Paul was walking he was walking through the ancestors of others.

Retracing the vanished footsteps of the ancestors who made the planet ours

I liked this sentence because it is worded really well and it is interesting that he is retracing the footsteps of past people.

“I am walking across the world. I am retracing the vanished footsteps of the ancestors who made the planet ours."

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·      “That is, he conjures the startling novelty of the first Stone Age baby born, through a sheer accident of genetics, with all the faculties we now associate with our clever species”

This sentence describes the development of the human species, and how what we now identify as our cleverest features were actually an error in genetics. The structure of the sentence was very enticing, and the thought process was evident. The way in which the thoughts were grouped made the sentence easy, yet interesting to read.

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"But the kids - their eyes burn with raw curiosity. They brim with a thousand questions."

To me, these two sentences are expressing a lot. Paul is saying that throughout his travels, he has passed villages filled with people that fear him as danger as he is a stranger to them. No matter where he seems to go, children are always coming up to him, walking around with him and helping him as they are not scared, they are curious. They want to know more. The adults fear him for he could bring danger to them.

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"the vanished footsteps of the ancestors who made the planet ours"

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"the vanished footsteps of the ancestors who made the planet ours"

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I liked this sentence because it is describing how our ancestors walked from Africa all around the world thousands of years ago. He has written it using adverbs and descriptive language to make us feel more connected to what he was saying.