Answer:
- Read the story from beginning to end.
- Annotate specific parts of the text by highlighting phrases or sentences and noting the literary elements used
- Take notes on your reactions to the literary elements you identified
- summarize what you've read and highlighted
- reread the story
Explanation:
To do an effective close reading you should start by doing a thorough reading of the text from beginning to end, taking short breaks so that you can make notes of some parts, highlighting relevant elements of the text, such as literary elements. Then, you must make notes on these literary elements, showing their function and relevance within the text. Then you should make a summary of what you wrote down, making the notes more cohesive and relevant. Finally, it is important to reread all the text and notes, to make sure everything is correct.
Spring, spring spring spring
The two main themes reflected in this excerpt are:
- the importance of family commitment
- the imortance of following one's dreams
- The longest part of the text consists of a description of how much Andrew and his parents are going to miss Robert as he leaves, and vice versa. Andrew even explains why it will be particularly difficult in this case: the two brothers have a special bond ("you and I ain’t like most brothers ... we’ve always been together"). The stage directions also indicate how moved the characters are about this departure ("with feeling"), and so does the punctuation, with exclamation marks and short sentences which usually express emotion ("Andy—believe that!").
- It is precisely this emphasis on the family bond that shows how much Robert's dream is important to him, because he is willing to suffer through separation to fulfill his desire to travel the world: "I hate to leave you and the old folks—but—I feel I’ve got to. There’s something calling me."
The action verb is glide :)
Summary is in the Google my friend this is so long