myPerspectives English Language Arts
myPerspectives English Language Arts
1st Edition
Savvas Learning Co
ISBN: 9780133338805
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Page 257: Comprehension Check

Exercise 1
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Aunt Georgina travels to Boston because she needed to get a small legacy that was left to her from a bachelor relative and she had to come to Boston to “attend to the settling of the estate” (Cather, paragraph 1).
Exercise 2
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The speaker says that his aunt and Howard Carpenter, when they went on a journey across the prairie on wagon, “built a dugout in the red hillside, one of those cave dwellings whose inmates usually reverted to the conditions of primitive savagery” (Cather, paragraph 4).
Exercise 3
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Initially Clark is embarrassed to be out in public with his aunt because she has a twitch, dresses in black and is dirty, and had false teeth; she just looks funny and looks like she doesn’t belong.
Exercise 4
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When the violins start playing the Pilgrim’s chorus, Aunt Georgiana starts to cry.
Exercise 5
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Aunt Georgiana doesn’t want to leave when the concert ends. She says, “I don’t want to go, Clark, I don’t want to go!” (Cather, paragraph 23).
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In this story, Clark takes his Aunt Georgiana to the orchestra while she is in Boston. She is a farmer from lower class and Clark notes how she is out of place in the higher class opera house. Aunt Georgiana ends up crying and not wanting to leave the show when it ends, Clark thinks this is because she doesn’t want to go back to the farm.
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