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On Keeping A Notebook Analysis
One part of the essay "On Keeping a Notebook" that was fascinating to me was to see how a child that was given a notebook to keep her busy grew up with a notebook always by her side not to document her thoughts but to keep a record of what she saw. Somewhat, like stories about other people's lives. Anoher particular part was very heartwarming in the essay "Working at Wendy's," Joel had put his pride to the side to take care of his family, not asking his wife to stop attending school but put his life on hold to work at a fast food resturant that his child's peers and their parents go to eat. Lastly, in the essay "Graduation " Angelo the fact that "colored" people went to school was supprise but to only have a few schools after Jr. High was

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