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Lines 15-19 ("The brook…in fear perhaps") are best interpreted to mean that


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Sorry Okay Making nice progress here Next question Lines fifteen

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through nineteen Let's just skim and real quick There they

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are the Brook Yeti out of fear Perhaps that's a

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section our best interpreted to mean What What do those

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lines mean Well not a good sign when you read

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something then you have three or what it means Well

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the Brook is incapable of feeling fear because well it's

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a Brooke people It's ah thing of water It's only

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choice is to submit to its current circumstances Uh no

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matter how dark they may appear to be like life

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is in danger by forgetting to go in fear that

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Brooke is merely acting according to its nature Unlike people

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who have the choice Teo you know go in fear

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if they're thrown in a dungeon or walled off in

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concrete or stuck in front of reality TV perpetually or

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you know whatever So the answer is B The brook

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fears nothing and must submit to its new circumstances and

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the loser ball well by saying the brook was thrown

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deep in a sewer dungeon the author's saying that it

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ended up in that fetid place against its will Like

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who would purposely go to a sewer other than a

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rat By describing the new location of the brook with

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such awful words like fetid darkness will the author's highlighting

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the unfairness of the situation and suggesting that the Brook

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will not last long You know despite its immortal for

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So get rid of all those right answer here is 00:01:19.86 --> [endTime] B is in Brooke and ah very sad

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