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sure brought to you by scientific experiments Don't worry no

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shmoop employees were harmed in the making of this video

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Really they weren't good All right check out the following

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passage We're reading it reading as we go on guns

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before they were skimming quick All right then Right down

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to it What is paragraph one mainly about And here

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the potential answers shmoop all right Well the key here

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is the word mainly is on the plane Li like

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it lets us know that we want a pinpoint The

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most important topic option aid does not do the trick

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We get the scoop on mr gunderson's wild sundays which

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consists of sitting alone by a fire while reading boring

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books But there's something much more interesting going on in

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the passage Even if there's nothing interesting going on in

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other sins Life option d also points out a detail

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that's far too minor We see that dr jekyll has

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many credentials which allowing to put a bunch of important

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sounding letters after his name M d d c l

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l l d fr s c h m o p

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whatever However mr utterson has bigger things to worry about

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then dr jekyll's Fancy credentials answer c is getting warmer

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Mr utterson is definitely wondering about the relationship between dr

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jacqueline mr hyde However he doesn't find out enough concrete

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information for us to conclude that this is the main

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topic of the passage Maybe If patterson included a little

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robert louis stevenson in those sunday reading sessions he wouldn't

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be so in the dark which leaves us with be

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the passage goes on for a while about all the

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reasons jekyll's will rubs out us in the wrong way

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and it's utter sins suspicion about the will that leads

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him to go Visit dr lanyon and it's These same

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suspicions that have him tossing and turning in bed at

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the end of the passage But don't worry anderson Sleep

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will come Just don't take any sleep aids given to 00:02:06.18 --> [endTime] you by dr jekyll You'll probably regret him

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