- One word from Hamilton’s essay that I had to look up was Chastising. Chastising means to rebuke or reprimand severely.
- “I’m not sure you should sit across from each other and eat the roasted bird in resentful silence, either, but we did that, too, and the meat was disagreeably tough.” The author shares a food memory in which she learned something very important about life. In this particular passage I like how the author uses her word choice to describe the Hard Truth that she learns throughout the article. After volunteering to kill a Chicken, the author struggles to kill the bird quickly and less painfully, so her Dad begins yelling at her aggressively without helping her out. When they ate in a very upset and tense manner, The author ends the passage with descriptions of having a very tough meal that night. Thus, the author learns that people are not always gonna be there for her or save her, so she must learn how to be tough on her own. One question that I have is if she applied what she learned quickly in life or did it take some time.
- Why was the author very melancholy in the beginning?
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The sentence you chose is one of my favorites from this essay. I especially like the idea that the chicken is “disagreeably tough” since we can understand it both literally and in a symbolic way.