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Assignment:
1. How would I introduce this quote? "But for me, as an E.S.L. student from a family of illiterate rice farmers, who saw reading as snobby, or worse"
2. How would I introduce this quote? "We lived, all seven of us, in a one-bedroom apartment in Hartford, Connecticut, and I spent my first seven years in America surrounded, inundated, by the Vietnamese language"
3. How does this quote "But for me, as an E.S.L. student from a family of illiterate rice farmers, who saw reading as snobby, or worse" reinforce the lesson (The lesson Ocean Vuong is trying to teach is that despite the agony and trauma of the past, it is possible to discover beauty and hope in the current moment)?
4. How does this quote "We lived, all seven of us, in a one-bedroom apartment in Hartford, Connecticut, and I spent my first seven years in America surrounded, inundated, by the Vietnamese language" reinforce the lesson (The lesson Ocean Vuong is trying to teach is that despite the agony and trauma of the past, it is possible to discover beauty and hope in the current moment)?
5. How do I introduce this quote? "I had read books that weren't books, and I had read them using everything but my eyes".
6. How do I introduce this quote? "Eliot's idea of tradition is complex and unusual, involving something he Eliot's idea of tradition is complex and unusual, involving something he describes as "the historical sense" which is a perception of "the pastness of the past" but also of its "presence."
7. How does this quote "I had read books that weren't books, and I had read them using everything but my eyes" reinforce the lesson (It helps us grasp how important it is to comprehend the past in order to create something new and worthwhile)?
8. How does this quote "We lived, all seven of us, in a one-bedroom apartment in Hartford, Connecticut, and I spent my first seven years in America surrounded, inundated, by the Vietnamese language" reinforce the lesson (It helps us grasp how important it is to comprehend the past in order to create something new and worthwhile)?