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Texas EOC English 2: 2.4 Understanding and Analysis of Literary Texts
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Thank you We sneak in and here's your shmoop du

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jour brought to you by leo tolstoy literary giant and

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champion grower of beards All right check the following passage

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and we're skimming with human were on through there okay

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We're not needed his proud The opening statement of the

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past had served tio what and hear the potential answers

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All right Well the opening quote happy families are all

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alike Every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way

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is a strong statement about families not to mention one

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of the most quoted lines of all time Seriously of

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all time Like in the beginning what's the point of

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it all mr tolstoy Well the answer is definitely not

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be it's tempting to assume that stepan's family was happy

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before the affair but the passage doesn't ever say this

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And really how happy could they have been if stepan

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was gearing up to run around on the missus choice

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eh We say well yeah but what else you got

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for us Of course the first line compares happy families

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the unhappy ones but tolstoy being a great writer and

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all probably has a deeper agenda like a choice See

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isn't wrong wrong but it misses the point The first

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line is a general introductory statement but it's not so

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general that it doesn't connect everything that comes after it

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Well d is the best answer No doubt about it

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jablonski is fall into the category of unhappy families The

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opening statement help set the stage describes stepan's family issues

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And marital problems Later they'll go on dr phil and 00:01:29.706 --> [endTime] work it all out

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