https://padlet.com/lukemunsey/5tgtnfjs8f1u Made with a quick smile en-us 2018-01-31 12:53:52 UTC 2026-01-10 08:23:51 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/lukemunsey/5tgtnfjs8f1u/wish/226585906 Amy Tan describes the memories of an old woman in Shanghai as such: "The old woman remembered a swan she had bought many years ago in Shanghai for a foolish
sum. This bird, boasted the market vendor, was once a duck that stretched its neck in hopes of
becoming a goose, and now look! – it is too beautiful to eat" (69)]]> 2018-01-31 14:49:18 UTC https://padlet.com/lukemunsey/5tgtnfjs8f1u/wish/226585906 https://padlet.com/lukemunsey/5tgtnfjs8f1u/wish/226586227 The author's mother expected much, as the author said, "no matter what I did, whatever I came home with, she acted like it was the
moon I had just hung up in the sky and plugged in all the stars" (94 Kingslover).]]> 2018-01-31 14:49:46 UTC https://padlet.com/lukemunsey/5tgtnfjs8f1u/wish/226586227 flannerymcnair https://padlet.com/lukemunsey/5tgtnfjs8f1u/wish/226586498 As Harper Lee once put it, "There are just some kind of men who—who're so busy worrying about the next world they've
never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results" (56).]]> 2018-01-31 14:50:12 UTC https://padlet.com/lukemunsey/5tgtnfjs8f1u/wish/226586498 https://padlet.com/lukemunsey/5tgtnfjs8f1u/wish/226586673 As the Secret Life of Bees puts it, "The secret of a good lie is don't overly explain, and throw in one good detail"(75).]]> 2018-01-31 14:50:30 UTC https://padlet.com/lukemunsey/5tgtnfjs8f1u/wish/226586673 jaydenbatista https://padlet.com/lukemunsey/5tgtnfjs8f1u/wish/226586974 In Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, she says that "No one is going to make you talk-possibly no one can. But bear in mind, language is man's way of communicating with his fellow man and it is language alone which separates him from the lower animals" (72).]]> 2018-01-31 14:50:59 UTC https://padlet.com/lukemunsey/5tgtnfjs8f1u/wish/226586974 https://padlet.com/lukemunsey/5tgtnfjs8f1u/wish/226587244 Twain described the legacy of Tom Sawyer very well: “Tom was a glittering hero once more—the pet of the old, the envy of the young. His name even went into immortal print, for the village paper magnified him. There were some that believed he would be President, yet, if he escaped hanging" (99).]]> 2018-01-31 14:51:21 UTC https://padlet.com/lukemunsey/5tgtnfjs8f1u/wish/226587244