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Identify one way in which Lucy's reaction to the lady in the passage from Mrs. Zant and the Ghost differs from Huck's reaction to seeing the stranger in the excerpt from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Use one detail from the passage and one detail from the excerpt to support your answer.


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All right Readers aspiring to be great reading the missus

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ain't in the ghost story Well here we go Question

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ten of ten Last one Think about the proceeding passages

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You read the following excerpt This expert is narrated by

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huck finn who has disguised himself as a girl I

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started up the illinois shore in the canoe just after

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dark I started across the town from a little below

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the ferry landed and the drifter the current fetch me

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in At the bottom of the town i tied up

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and started along the bank There was a light burning

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in a little shanty that hadn't been lived in for

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a long time And i wondered who had took up

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quarters there I slipped up and peeped in at the

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window There was a woman about forty year old They're

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in it and buy a candle That was on a

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pine table I didn't know her face She was a

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stranger for you Couldn't start up face in that town

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that i didn't know Now this was lucky because i

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was a weakening I was getting referred I had come

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on people not know my voice and find me out

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but if this woman had been in such a little

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town two days she could tell me all i wanted

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to know So i knocked the door and made up

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my mind I wouldn't forget i was a girl Identify

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one way in which lucy's reaction to the lady in

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the passage from mrs and the ghost differs from huck's

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reaction to seeing the stranger in the excerpt from adventures

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huckleberry finn Use one detail from the passage and one

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detail from the excerpt to support your answer All right

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well let's think about this one Here's a sample response

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Lucy is frightened by the woman because the woman is

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unfamiliar and in lucy's mind acts strangely describing the interaction

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to her dad Lucy says the lady didn't seem to

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see me when she looked which is the most frightening

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part of the encounter for her Huck on the other

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hand is glad that the woman is a stranger because

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he doesn't want anyone to recognize him He says that

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he didn't know her face and that this was lucky

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What we'd be hard pressed to find two children who

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are any more different from each other than lucy in

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hut right lucy For freaks out when a woman looks

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at her and huck laughs in the face of of

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danger huh Gets into dangerous situations At least lucy is

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afraid because the strange woman looks at her without seeing

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her But the one thing that scares hawk in this

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excerpt is the possibility that someone he knows might see

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him and recognize him So when huck finds himself a

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stranger he celebrates Unlike lucy who runs back to her

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daddy well full scoring response describes it clear difference between

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lucy's and huck's reactions to seeing a stranger and discusses

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to relevant details that demonstrate the difference between the two

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characters and note all the quotations and the excellent citing

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that we did here in this answer for you and 00:02:35.645 --> [endTime] we're done with this section goodbye

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