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Texas EOC English 1: 2.7 Understanding and Analysis across Genres
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Thank you We sneak in and here's your shmoop du

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jour brought to you by short answers making tall answers

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feel better about themselves for centuries Check the following passage

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and we're just going to skim it really quick because

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this is seriously the eighteenth time we've read it so

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we're just done All right Why does the narrator use

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the word Perhaps twice and in all capital letters in

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paragraph two how does the narrator seem to feel about

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her husband's opinion on her condition Support your answer with

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evidence from the passage and well here's a potential answer

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So rock on people The narrator has her own opinions

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about her condition which contradict those of her husband She

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states that her husband does not really believe that she's

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sick but has given her medicine to take and has

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prescribed certain activities to her while restricting her from other

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activities She believes that getting out and socialising would be

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beneficial to her But her husband feels otherwise The narrator

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states the following john is a physician and perhaps i

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would not say to a living soul of course But

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this is dead paper and a great relief to my

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mind perhaps That is one reason i do not get

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well faster The narrator uses the word perhaps which isn't

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a particularly strong word on its own in order to

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convey her sarcasm toward her husband's professional opinion about her

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condition In the time period in which the story was

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written it would have been unacceptable for a woman to

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contradict her husband In such a way The word perhaps

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takes on a new connotation because it's transformed into a

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word that directly challenges the authority of john is a

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male doctor This has been your sample short answer See

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how we used a ton of specific evidence from the 00:01:39.505 --> [endTime] passage Yep that's How it's done

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