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Summary Of Magic Metal Tube
The first sentence in the “Magic Metal Tube” incorporates the title into the sentence, giving you an idea of what the story is about. A vivid description of what is on the tube, like the gold circles and the red lines. Color really brings a sense of visualization to the reader's mind. The writer also uses sensory details, to explain a memory and the smell the character experiences when interacting with an object when he/she opens it. The character gets this sense of smell from ancient China, that's been hiding in the back of his brain.
The first sentence of “The Blond Guitar” gives the reader perspective of the relationship between the guitar and the character himself. Like how the instrument was his first one he taught himself how to play on. A sentence like this gives you some background knowledge for what you are about to read . The next few sentences gives the readers an insight of the shape the guitar is in, like the scratches, fingerprints, and scuffs. Really knowing these details, describes to the reader important information of why the guitar was so special to him. These descriptive sentences really give you a picture, and feeling of how the guitar looked and felt. If a story like this did not have these descriptive words, the story would be bland and
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He's no normal cat that anybody else can relate to. Gregory is a one of a kind,walking with elegance and a sense of royalty each step he takes. These first two sentences are perfect to me, they really give me a vision and feeling of how the cat acts. The writer really gives this cat a sense of human traits, like his ability to sit down and watch tv. Gregory, understands the cat commercials for cat food. He now knows the difference between good cat food and less expensive cat food. Most of these sentences are complete sentences, the writer really gets his point across each line he writes. He doesn't lose the reader's interest because the passage is quite comical to

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