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The shift in mood between paragraphs five (lines 44-53) and six (lines 54-76) is best described as


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No Okay Next up AP English let people The shift

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in mood between paragraphs five and six is best described

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as what Alright paragraph five forty for here on this

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thing ever month passed since manner Papa grew worse A

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kind of journalistic next one Well there was considerable difference

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between the ages of my parents but the circuits are

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so it's gotten very personal There is a ship So

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let's think about this Well Caroline had a pretty rough

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time there with her father's illness and having no money

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Well after she mourned his death things suddenly took a

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more hopeful turn in romance right It kind of goes

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from dour and sour Teo hopeful optimistic maybe a little

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bit That's an emotional rags to riches story way Think

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that said the answer is a mournful too hopeful and

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the loser ball the wrong ones Well there's nothing particularly

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romantic or impassive about Paragraph five Depressed sounds too vague

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here because the mood deals with death and mourning and

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redemptive has a connotation of having done something bad and

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like a Phoenix rising from the ashes which is not

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at all what has happened to Caroline So that's it 00:01:18.22 --> [endTime] The answer is a mournful double fool

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