What was the impact of the "incident"?
What will be an ideal response?
* The incident altered the narrator's mindset quite radically, as can be seen by comparing the first and last stanzas.
* He says it's all he remembers from his time in Baltimore (May to December) and it blocked out all other memories.
* It also was a moment that altered the child's innocence about race and about the cruelty of some people.
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For each italicized word, circle the letter of the correct definition. Dialect means
a. foreign tongue b. mimicking the voices of others c. language of a particular region
All adverbs end in –ly
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Connect Garcia Marquez's story with the magic realism tradition.
What will be an ideal response?
A(n) ____ describes how something happens or is done.
a) directional process b) informational process c) description d) narrative