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The phrase "a fair exotic" (line 67) emphasizes Caroline's


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No Okay Next up for AP lit Here we go

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The phrase oftheir exotic online sixty seven emphasizes Caroline's what

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Let's go to sixty seven and read a fair exotic

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Here we go Yada yada he strove to shelter her

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is a fair Exotic is sheltered by the gardener from

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every rougher weakness around her with a blob Blob of

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arts is called like an exotic plant or something that's

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a fragile So think about it because the author says

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the fair exotic is sheltered by the gardener It's reasonable

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to assume its plant The therefore the father protects Caroline

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as if she were a rare plants such as the

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beautiful ghost Orchid Yeah Grandpa Shmoop has quite the green

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thumb You did well to require such intense sheltering Caroline

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must be fairly delicate as the author also says she

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has a soft and benevolent mind Soft mind That's what

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I always aspired to have So yeah it's e a

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delicate nature And the loser ball Well the speaker is

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from Geneva Genevieve so his mother wasn't foreign born Get

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rid of A and well this line is also part

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of a simile it uses as to compare the way

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the father protected her with the way a gardener protects

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a plant so she isn't literally fair skinned Or they're

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in the sense of you know weighing both sides equally

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like a Supreme Court justice Finally she wouldn't need sheltering

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if she hadn't untamed mobile personality So get rid of

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be in reality though she has that soft and benevolent

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mind And she's not a shrew She's a nice girl 00:01:35.18 --> [endTime] so that's it It's e delicate nature

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