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I thought many things before I began reading this text. I thought this text was going to be about some young girl down south. I thought the geography would be flatt becuase it was out in the country. I thought the group would be very close and non-accepting to outsiders. I also thought all of the families and their beliefs wouldn't be opended minded about anything.
I read a very similar book to this excerpt. The book was called The Cool World. In that book there was a character who went by Mama, and she was kind of like the older more respected person in the book.
With my previous writing and reading experiences I can quickly identify what type of reading this is which clears up and confusing assumptions I could get while reading it. I would describe this style as real.
Some of the slang was hard to understand at first becuase it wouldn't sound like an acutal sentence. I solved this probelm by rereading the sentence over and over again.
On page 124 I got confused becuase in the middle of the page the words were so blatent none of it really made any sense to me until I read it several times over. Basic information that helped me out for the story was relationships and names of the people within the story. Mama Day interested me the most becuase when I get older I want to be respected like she was.