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Compare the way that the narrator in the passage from The Country of the Pointed Firs and the narrator in the excerpt from Great Expectations describe each funeral procession. Providing details from the passage and the excerpt, describe one similarity and one difference.


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Okay aspiring reading people last one in the country The

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point infers Yeah we know you're going to miss this

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passage Think about the proceeding passage as you read the

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following excerpt This excerpt is narrated by pip who has

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returned to his hometown for his sister's funeral pocket handkerchiefs

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out all cried mr Trap at this point in a

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depressed business like voice pocket handkerchiefs out We are ready

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so we all put our pocket handkerchiefs to our faces

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as if our noses were bleeding and filed out two

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and two and joe and i biddy in humble chuck

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mr And mrs Hubbell the remains of my poor sister

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had been brought round by the kitchen door and it

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being a point of undertaking ceremony that the six bearers

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must be stifled and blinded under ah horrible black velvet

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housing with a white border The whole looked like a

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blind monster with twelve human legs shuffling and blundering along

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under the guidance of two keepers the post boy in

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his comrade The neighborhood however highly approved of these arrangements

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and we were much admired as we went through the

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village The more youthful and vigorous part of the community

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making dashes now and then to cut us off and

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lying in wait to intercept us at points of vantage

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from great expectations Remember that alright we'll compare here the

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way that the narrator in the passage from the country

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of the pointed furs and the narrator in the excerpt

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from great expectations describe each funeral procession providing details from

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the passage in the excerpt described one similarity and one

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difference One difference between the two narrators is their involvement

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in the funeral procession The narrator in the country of

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the pointed first describes the walking funeral at she observes

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it from a distance but the narrator in great expectations

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participates in the procession The two are similar in that

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they view the processions as strange in some way the

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narrator in the passage says the little procession in the

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foreground looked feudal and helpless on the edge of the

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rocky shore and the narrator in the excerpt says that

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the bearers looked like a blind monster with twelve human

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legs Well let's see we're going to break this down

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What do you think It's not hard to pick up

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on pips Disapproval you know horrible black velvet and blind

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monster there they don't sound very positive After all the

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narrator in the country of the pointed furs is a

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bit more ambivalent about the procession However the paragraph that

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says the procession looked futile and helpless and disappeared from

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the great landscape as if it had gone into a

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cave Well that suggest that she thinks the whole thing

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seems off odd The major difference is that the narrator

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in the passage is just watching While pip is actually

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part of the pall bearing parade trysting that five times

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fast without spitting ah full scoring response clearly states one

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significant difference between the two narratives and one similar and

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draw specific and relevant details from the passage and excerpt

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to support the claims of difference and similarity and know

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well we think we did that we're done with the 00:02:55.533 --> [endTime] furs

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