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Read "Walker Brothers Cowboy," Vol. 2, p. 1476-1486.
Review the "Critical Reading Skills" section of the W1 Literary Analysis Tools module.
Perform a close reading of these two paragraphs from "Walker Brothers Cowboy" in Volume 2 of your textbook: The first full paragraph on p. 1478, which begins "In the afternoons she often walks to Simon's Grocery..." and the first paragraph on p. 1479, which begins "What is there about us that people need to be given a rest from?" You may find it helpful to annotate or take notes.
A close reading allows the reader to carefully evaluate the reading to identify details that may be missed during a casual reading.
Identifying these details helps the reader to form conclusions about the text. Analyze the details you observed in your close reading and draw conclusions the narrator's parents and her relationships with them.
Respond to the following questions in your post, giving examples of tone and diction to support your answers:
What do these paragraphs reveal about the narrator's relationships with her parents?
How do these two paragraphs reveal the narrator's feelings about those relationships?