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''Too bad about Mounts''Page 55 what this quote is

about her family member. I chose this because it had pertained to the subject.

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"it wouldn't be a hanging without me, would it? page 2

i can't relate to this quote because

I would never like to watch the

torture or killing of another human.

The way these people act toward each other

people is cruel.

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"I'll never forget the sound of that man's

neck breaking." pg.3 I chose this quote

because it shows that hearing and seeing some

one die is not a video game it is reality ,you

will never forget it in real life.

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"Likely your baby will be marked now."

(from being at the hanging) pg3

I picked this quote because i think it is

horrible that someone would actually

bring their child to a hanging. Its sad

that they look at the hanging as a

sort of joyous thing to go to.

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".And those were the people,

headed up by the Devil Anse, who shot and killed

Pa's brother Harmon when he came home for a Christimas

furlough. Shot him for coming out of the Union". It is amazing

someone would shoot and kill someone for something so

little back then..... WOW what is america coming to?.

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"Likely your baby will be marked next now"     Why would you bring a baby to a hanging

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To day they hanged Ellison Mounts.

page 1 I choose this quote because its

different to start a book off with some one

dying.

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"There's been too much dying around these

parts for my liking." -page 6

I chose this quote because it explains how

many people had died in the fight between the

Hatfields and McCoys, and the aftermath ow what

had been going on.

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"He was a halfwit and his people are dirty-poor

and simple, but he didn't deserve to die." location

I chose this because it shows she felt bad for the

man who was hung even though her family didn't

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"By ten o'clock most of the men were pretty well in

their cups." p.2

I remembered about how back in the 1820s men would get drunk

and abuse their wives

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"Today they hanged Ellison Mounts. he was a halfwit and his people where dirt poor and simple, but he didn't deserve to die. I know it and others do, too. but  when they put Ma on the witness stand at his trial, they shut her up and said that she wasn't right in the head after what happened to her. The prosecuting attorney event called Ma a lair, and I thought Pa would shoot him on the spot. And they sentenced the halfwit Mounts to death then and there for what happened for the night the Hatfield's' Gang attacked our house and did the killing." Page 1

It showed the reader that the book was in favor of the McCoy's instead of the Hatfield's  by telling us about a drastic event that happed before the beginning of the book.

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"I can never forget the sound of his neck breaking."

I picked this because i can imagine whats it like to hear

that and never be able to get that sound out of her head

and how devastating it would be to see and hear that.

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"people waited for it like a second coming"

pg.2

i choose this quote because they knew that

something bad or good is going to happen.

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"Did you ever hear such nonsense, Fanny McCoy?"

They thought that the mountain people's beliefs were crazy.

You shouldn't cheer and celebrate at these kinds of things.

I personally don't think you should celebrate at hangings either.

It's cruel and coldhearted.

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" oh God i will never forget the sound of that mans neck breaking

I can relate to the women and her feeling to hear a mans neck break in public. That is a sound that truly know one can forget. page 76 (kindel)

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"One [gingerbread] fer a nickle

and three fer a dime." p. 15

I noticed that the author used fer

instead of for because they she

wanted it to seem more realistic.

I also noticed that the prices were

much lower in that time period.

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"the mountain people and their superstitions" pg.3

that there beliefs were that they had to cheer on for the death of someone, and it wasn't right for someone to be happy of death.

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"I write to improve my penmanship

for normal school." pg.6

I chose this quote because it's so easy

for us to call the schools and school systems

we are familiar with 'normal school', and it's

the same with Fanny in the story; it's only hard

for her to go because

of the feud.

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"By ten o'clock most of the men were pretty well in

their cups." p. 2

I chose this Quote, because it reminded me of the

" temperance movement" from the 1820s; how

men would drink a lot and end up abusing their wives.

It sounds like the men are drinking a lot here.

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"I can never forget the sound of his neck breaking."

I chose this quote because of how she said she'll never forget the sound and it reminded me when I broke my arm and how i will never forget the sound, smell, and how it felt.

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"All of Eastern Kentucky came out for this hanging ."There hasn't been such a holiday in Pikeville since i can't remember when."

what do you think they mean by calling it a holiday ? I chose this quote because i was suprised that to some people this was a holiday

because to us it would be a tragedy

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"I'll never forget the sound of that man's neck breaking"

This is what a woman Fanny at the hanging who had a baby with her and a woman standing

next to her says "Likely your baby must be marked now"

I'm just thinking why would you bring a baby to a hanging.

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"one fer a nickel and three fer a dime" p. 2

It's crazy how the prices have changed over

many years. Now you can probably get a

cookie for 25 cents, but they are talking about

gingerbread. It just amazes me how much

prices have went up. That was probably a

good amount of money back then.

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"It wouldn't be a hanging without one [a band], would it?" p. 3

I am shocked by the peoples' behavior toward and at the hanging. It is such a festive affair for them, not the serious and somber event that it would be for us.