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In her poem "Next", Lesa Cline-Ransome uses repetition to portray the theme of justice and fighting for what you believe in. The book, "Next" is about a girl who grew up in a cotton field in North Carolina. She worked with her parents and worked hard sun up and sun down evening her father. she'd do better next season but she knew next season wouldn't help with money or anything they needed so she left. She went to the big city hoping for a better life. In the text it states, "she worked still from sun up to sundown on a factory line, clocking in one day after the next, hoping to make something beautiful blossom from nothing." She scratched and scraped away the next years and watched as Martin, Malcom, Fannie, Ella, Rosa, Medgar, Ruby, Al, took
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