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GED Reasoning through Language Arts 1.1 Writing Skills
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GED Reasoning through Language Arts 1.3 Writing Skills
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GED Reasoning through Language Arts 3.1 Writing Skills. Why did the narrator initially find it impossible to fulfill his goal and "do the work"?


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Thank you We sneak in Sure Shmoop du jour Brought

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to you by googly eyes those creepy things we put

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on office supplies so that we always see a friendly

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face Otherwise it's a c all right try to regain

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your sanity and then read following passage Impossible thing going

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on in my brain Fancy man world on seven long

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night midnight only slept all right Why did the narrator

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initially find it impossible to fulfill his goal and do

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the work options are aidan They're indifferent concerned All right

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well normally when we hear the phrase do the work

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we'd think of something relatively harmless like yard work or

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lawn mowing stuff like that But for a neurotic narrator

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the work means something a teensy bit more worrisome like

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stabbing an old man because he has a freaky looking

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eye worries that kind of worrisome that kind of work

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But what exactly is standing in the way of our

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nasty narrator in his wicked winds Well it's not that

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he's worried he'll be caught The old man is pretty

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soundly asleep Probably tuckered out after a whole day of

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having someone stare at his eyeball Now if the old

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man were armed That would definitely throw a monkey wrench

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or a shift into the narrator's plan But there's no

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mention of weaponry at all in the passage and is

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the narrator plagued by sudden pangs of sympathy Not really

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He's pretty single minded about killing the old man which

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presents a problem because the narrator has no objections to

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him at all except that he has a weird eye

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So when that evil eyes closed well suddenly he's just

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a sweet happy old granddad again which is the problem

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that our narrator is encountering with that i close Suddenly

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he has no motivation whatsoever to kill the man Which

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makes d the correct answer because let's face it even

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if you're not a gothic murderer Weird wiggly googly eyes 00:01:54.173 --> [endTime] are really creepy Well

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