Some writers have a knack for selecting just the right words. Identify a few of your favorite words or phrases. Include the passage in which it was found.
Always remember the title and author. Don't forget the page numbers and quotation mark around your passage selection.
Explain why you made your selection.
(I look forward to building my vocabulary and language usage with your responses.)
This sentence by father/lawyer Atticus Finch in "To Kill A Mockingbird" stuck with me: "Shoot all the bluejays you want if you can hit them, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird." (p. 137) Read the book yourself to find the significance!
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ReplyDeleteA Stolen Life A Memoir
By: Jaycee Dugard
[T. S. Eliot once wrote, " I said to my soul be still, and wait without hope; for hope would be hope for the wrong thing.]- Jaycee Dugard (page: xi)
I chose this quote because her story was based on hope and patience. Her identity and life was stolen the summer of 1991. On august 26, 2009 she took her identity and life back, she kept her hope, her name.
Grace Cote- The Screwtape Letters- C. S. Lewis
ReplyDelete"He (God) is pleased even with their stumbles. Do not be deceived, Wormwood (a devil). Our cause is never more in danger than when a human, no longer desiring, but still intending, to do our Enemy's will, looks round upon a universe from which every trace of Him (God) seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken,and still obeys"(Lewis 39).
-This is one of my favorite quotes form this book. This quote, to me, points out Jesus' saying on the cross; "My God, My God, why have you forsaken me?" It means that this kind of surrender is the fullest kind of surrender to God's will.
"The Enemy (God) will also try to render real in the patient's mind a doctrine which they all profess but find it difficult to bring home to their feelings-the doctrine that they did not create themselves, that their talents were given them, and that they might as well be proud of the color of their hair" (Lewis 65).
-This is my favorite quote in the whole book. It has a bit of humor in the point by pointing out that our talents are as important as the color of our hair. It reminds me that my talents are not my own and that they are just meant to be enjoyed by me and the people I share them with. They're just the extras in my life. They are not my own, and that's why they are called gifts.
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