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CAHSEE 1.4 Passage Drill. What does the use of flashbacks accomplish in "Graduation"?

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Hurry And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you

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by a fear of public speaking Who really took a

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lot to say that Just all right Check the following

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passage on pause on my way up podian breathe breathe

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breathe breathing out Early world He likes to hear himself

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think okay Okay but what is the use of flashbacks

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accomplish in graduation All right And here the financial answers

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Okay here we go Well there's no real tricks to

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getting this one right way Just have tio you know

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read the past proving once again that the key to

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reading comprehension is well reading joyce tea is probably the

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easiest cross off the list It might help the narrator

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to remember her speech if she flashback to the time

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she wrote it but i knew our narrator relies solely

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on her trusty notecards choice See is wrong as well

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Narrator tells us that she and lynn are b f

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f's and are about to spend their summer together at

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the beach where like every recent college brad they'll make

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only responsible decisions with our future Option b doesn't work

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either Narrator mentions that her parents are out there but

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she doesn't say anything about what they look like Let's

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hope her dad didn't wear an embarrassing shirt or something

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You know we've been looks like our best option is

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a what makes graduation such an incredibly emotional days that

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we're all so busy living our everyday lives that we

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can hardly believe the big finale has come so quickly

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in this story The use of flashbacks helps readers understand

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why the narrator's so high strung about this whole speech

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thing It's fortunate for her She can't flash forward if

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you could see what life had in store for her 00:01:50.683 --> [endTime] Well she'd really have something stress about

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