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Texas EOC English 2: 1.3 Understanding and Analysis of Literary Texts 252 Views
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Thank you We sneak in and here's your smoke do
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sure Brought to you by pillows We knew a guy
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who slept with his head under a pillow And when
- 00:09
he woke up fairies had taken all his teeth All
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right check the following passage Yeah happy families all alike
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- 00:18
were skimming way love this ready guys The author describes
- 00:22
stepan's dream and his recollection of his current troubles for
- 00:26
the purposes of what And hear the pendulum giving Oh
- 00:32
poor step on Well we can almost picture and sleeping
- 00:35
on the couch dreaming a happy dream then waken up
- 00:38
and remembering that he's in big trouble with his wife
- 00:41
So why does the narrator bother to tell us about
- 00:44
stepan's dream bubble being burst Wellchoice a sort of makes
- 00:47
sense but we don't see stepan's thoughts per se We
- 00:50
do see his dream in his reflection on that dream
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but we don't get to eavesdrop on too many things
- 00:55
That step on is actually thinking if we peeked in
- 00:57
when stepan was thinking about that french nanny well this
- 01:00
book might be filed in a totally different section We're
- 01:03
going to say nada choice beat although the dream does
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Seem to be a glimpse into stepan's carefree life before
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the affair Well that's not what the author is trying
- 01:11
to show us And he is a definite no Just
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because stepan has a dream about a fancy party doesn't
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mean that he has an unrealistic attitude about life even
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though he does seem a little too excited about those
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glass tables A hand option C is the best answer
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The author is setting up a contrast between the current
- 01:27
reality of stefan's messed up marriage and a happy dream
- 01:31
of a fancy party with glass tables glass tables for
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those who loved eat dinner while staring at each other's 00:01:37.306 --> [endTime] feet
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