-OLD MAN AND THE SEA - Santiago keeps fighting off the sharks long after he knows that it is absolutely hopeless to preserve any of his fish. Do you consider this, or any similar act, an admirable show of endurance or a foolish and useless act? Explain.

- the heat nearly killed them that first summer.

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it's a way for authors to communicate with reader in this time period. books from the past can teach us about life.

the answer is camped

each morning i wrote my name

on the dusty cabinet, then crossed

the dining table in script, scrawled

in capitals on the backs of chairs,

practicing signatures like scales

while mother followed squirting

linseed from a burping can