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here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by

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firecrackers for when you want to get someone's attention but saying hello [Man throws firecracker at a woman reading a book]

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seems way too boring yeah... alright take a look at the

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following passage Chelsea Simpson had been my next-door neighbor for years she

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always had been mean to me she once even shoved a firecracker in my mailbox

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while I was on vacation. Despite all this, I felt sorry for her parents were never home she had

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no friends huh okay here's our question which sentence in the passage best shows

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the narrator's point of view on the topic of Chelsea Simpson and here are our

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potential answers alright Chelsea what you're doing to us, oh Chelsea girl... So to

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pick the right sentence we really need to figure out the narrator's point of [Man squeezing piece of paper]

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view let's see if we can ring the point of view out of the passage without

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getting it on the rug.. So let's take another look at what the

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passage is all about and see if we can figure out where Chelsea's neighbors are

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coming from... As we read it we see some things that suggest the author might

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just hate Chelsea's guts there's all that stuff about how she was always mean [Chelsea throws a firecracker]

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to them and infamous firecracker incident which probably didn't earn her

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any personality points with the mailman either however despite these actions we [Mailman holding a hot letter]

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also see that the narrator isn't filled with hatred but rather with pity how do

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we know our narrator comes right out and says it see right here I felt sorry for

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her looks like our pal Chelsea doesn't have the greatest home life and she's [Boys throwing a ball and Chelsea trying to catch it]

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not super popular with her peers, so it kind of makes sense that she would act

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out and that our narrator would understand why..we hear the mailman is

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still waiting on a handwritten apology oh he's coming for ya now... So all we need to [Mailman goes to mail a letter and dog chases him]

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do is pick the sentence that's all about how sorry the narrator felt for Chelsea

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well, looking at our options that sentence is none other than C so that's our

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answer and hey if you ever feel sorry for someone it's not a bad idea to give [Man gives girl a present]

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them a gift just maybe not of firecrackers your mailman will thank you

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you

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