https://padlet.com/lukemunsey/9kculiajmt4i Made with a bold sensibility en-us 2018-01-31 12:54:51 UTC 2018-01-31 17:04:12 UTC hello@padlet.com margaretferguson https://padlet.com/lukemunsey/9kculiajmt4i/wish/226668901
In Hiroshima, John Hersey states that "they still wonder why they lived when so many others died. Each of them counts many small items of chance or volition—a step taken in time, a decision to go indoors, catching one streetcar instead of the next that spared him. And now each knows that in the act of survival he lived a dozen lives and saw more death than he ever thought he would see. At the time, none of them knew anything." (6). 

]]> 2018-01-31 16:53:22 UTC https://padlet.com/lukemunsey/9kculiajmt4i/wish/226668901 https://padlet.com/lukemunsey/9kculiajmt4i/wish/226669087 bean tree-

In the story Bean Tree the narrator states that Mama "always expected the best out of me. And the other is that then 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. Like I was that good." (Kingsolver 45)]]> 2018-01-31 16:53:39 UTC https://padlet.com/lukemunsey/9kculiajmt4i/wish/226669087 https://padlet.com/lukemunsey/9kculiajmt4i/wish/226669190 To Kill a Mocking Bird
According to Harper Lee " There are just some kind of men - who're so worried about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results" (128).]]> 2018-01-31 16:53:49 UTC https://padlet.com/lukemunsey/9kculiajmt4i/wish/226669190 https://padlet.com/lukemunsey/9kculiajmt4i/wish/226669289 According to Mark Twain, "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." (87)]]> 2018-01-31 16:53:59 UTC https://padlet.com/lukemunsey/9kculiajmt4i/wish/226669289 https://padlet.com/lukemunsey/9kculiajmt4i/wish/226669462 Abby, Maddi, Audrey, and Emma 
Amy Tan paint a picture of a fond memory in the Joy Luck Club:"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."(162)

]]> 2018-01-31 16:54:16 UTC https://padlet.com/lukemunsey/9kculiajmt4i/wish/226669462 https://padlet.com/lukemunsey/9kculiajmt4i/wish/226670005 The author asserts that "the secret of a good lie is don't overly explain, and throw in  one good detail" (Kidd 56).]]> 2018-01-31 16:55:05 UTC https://padlet.com/lukemunsey/9kculiajmt4i/wish/226670005 https://padlet.com/lukemunsey/9kculiajmt4i/wish/226670075 In the novel I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, Angelou writes: "Now 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." (73).]]> 2018-01-31 16:55:11 UTC https://padlet.com/lukemunsey/9kculiajmt4i/wish/226670075