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The children in the district are so poor and some of them so pathetic that I suppose the struggle to live has been so great you could not think much about what you fed the mind, but I came away feeling that right there, in one of the biggest and richest states in the country, we had a big area that needed books and needed libraries to help these schools in the education of the children, and, even more, to help the whole community to learn to live through their minds.
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Readers would most likely connect this excerpt to their lives by relating to wanting to make their parents proud.
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Both the poem and the story is expressing how humans impact nature and how we feel about it. In Cervantes's poem, the theme is humans destroy things for no reason but for our own personal gain. In Hurd's story, the theme is we are as insignificant to nature as it is to us.
