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My Response To Leslie Norris 'Blackberries'
My response to Leslie Norris “Blackberries” Story “you don’t do much” and “I do what I can” An argument in this story between a poor father and a scornful mother starts over a child’s cap filled with Blackberries. In my perspectives, it is disappointing when you unintentionally do a favor to make someone happy, and for an honest mistake it turns against you. That is what pretty much I describe the father in this story. I agreed with the fact that, the mother was upset about the ruined cap that she bought for her son, but with all what happen to the sympathetic father she shouldn’t act this way especially in front of his child and for what he did for her. “it is expensive enough” the mother said to the man in the clothes shop where she

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