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Finger [1]
2 years ago
15

In Sherman Alexie's poem "The Summer of Black Widows," the spiders that seem to plague the neighborhood one summer are described

as stories. How do readers know that the poem's speaker is still talking about spiders, throughout the poem?
The poem has a refrain that repeats this fact over and over.
The speaker directly reminds readers of the connection in each stanza.
The spiders behave like storytellers in the speaker's dreams.
The "stories" are found in ways that spiders are usually found.
English
1 answer:
butalik [34]2 years ago
8 0

Answer:

The "stories" are found in ways that spiders are usually found.

Explanation:

Here's some examples of the "stories" (spiders) being found and gotten rid of:

"An Indian girl opened the closet door and a story fell into her hair."

"We poisoned the stories and gathered their remains with broom  and pan."

Stories in our cereal boxes.

Stories in our firewood.

Stories in the pockets of our coats.

We captured stories and offered them to the ants

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