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The author shares information about Cyntoia's life before the murder to help
readers understand the circumstances that might have influenced her rash
decision
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Cyntoia was convicted of killing Johnny Allen after she shot at him after they agreed a fee for sex. She was 16 at the time.
A research into her life shows women in her family in her family had a history of abuse as her grandmother said she was a victim of violent abuse of which she got pregnant and gave birth to Cyntoia's mother who in turn is a single parent and didn't supervise Cyntoia as she grew which led her down the paths of drugs, prostitution and finally murder.
I think people think crying is a weakness because you are more vulnerable while you crying. It could also be because maybe people associate cry with babies. Crying isn’t a sign of weakness because everybody cries and it’s part of human emotions so there nothing you can do about it. Also it helps you let everything out when you’re stressed, sad angry, etc...
Read the passage from "No Gumption":
The one I most despised was, “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.” This was the battle cry with which she constantly sent me back into the hopeless struggle whenever I moaned that I had rung every doorbell in town and knew there wasn’t a single potential buyer left in Belleville that week. After listening to my explanation, she handed me the canvas bag and said, “If at first you don’t succeed...”
Three years in that job, which I would gladly have quit after the first day except for her insistence, produced at least one valuable result. My mother finally concluded that I would never make something of myself by pursuing a life in business and started considering careers that demanded less competitive zeal.
One evening when I was eleven I brought home a short “composition” on my summer vacation which the teacher had graded with an A. Reading it with her own schoolteacher’s eye, my mother agreed that it was top-drawer seventh grade prose and complimented me. Nothing more was said about it immediately, but a new idea had taken life in her mind. Halfway through supper she suddenly interrupted the conversation.
“Buddy,” she said, “maybe you could be a writer.”
You will write one well-developed paragraph of at least 7-8 sentences.
In your paragraph, identify one major idea in the memoir "No Gumption." Then identify one sentence in the passage that directly develops or refines that main idea. Explain how that sentence develops the main idea you identified.
Make sure you are using specific evidence from "No Gumption" to support your ideas.
