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How do the author’s emotions expressed in Excerpt 1 connect to the events that happen to him in Excerpt 2? Your answer should include at least two pieces of evidence drawn both from paragraph one (Excerpt 1) and the rest of the passage (Excerpt 2).
Sample Answer
A correct answer would include the following:
- “our lives would be different from those of other children” or “and the most that these long talks did to us was to make us feel a vague dread”
- Evidence pertaining to the bullying incidents
- Connection between the “vague dread” about their situation and the very specific dread of the gang
- Connection between feeling different from other kids and feeling alienated by the boys in his neighborhood who attacked him
