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GED Reasoning through Language Arts 1.1 Reading Skills. What can the reader infer about the narrator from the description of the scene in paragraph 1?

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Sorry And here's your smoke du jour brought to you

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by the scarlet letter Give me an a and that's

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it All right we're skimming damon In quaker heterodox Mistress

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she's a party All right we don't Okay here we

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go What can the reader and for about the narrator

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from the description of the scene in paragraph one and

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hear your potential answers Okay so what's this question asking

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Well we just met this narrator guy but the question

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wants us to make a snap judgment about the guy

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Not a cool thing to do in real life but

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here i'm totally fine We're directed to look at paragraph

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one so let's do that All right so he spends

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a lot of time describing the people of this town

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What kind of words does he use Right Well rigidity

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severity Bitter tempered Stern what general impression is the speaker

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trying to convey Well is it a that he's from

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a similar culture While if he is then he certainly

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isn't missing home He's not talking about this place or

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these people in the best life lost He never really

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draws a parallel to where he came from So we

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can skip scarlet letter a what about c Well the

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narrator agrees with the spectators reactions Well if he agreed

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with him he wouldn't be using all those negative Words

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So no i didn't see fi narrator shares the crowds

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puritan beliefs not he didn't speak like he's including himself

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is one of them so it's not the our answer

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has to be be the narrator is from a more

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tolerant society and yeah that's Why he's picking on them

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so much He doesn't know why all their panties aaron

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such a bunch Plus he says that the spectators make

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the mildest acts seem just as awful as the severe

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ast one Maybe it is a zen bees in their 00:01:56.159 --> [endTime] minds

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