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Okay Ccs fires last one ten of ten right here

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Let's jump in Think about the proceeding passage as you

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read the following excerpt The excerpt describes the early life

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of robert louis stevenson author of treasure island The little

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louis was from his earliest babyhood a very delicate child

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and only the most constant and tender care of his

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devoted mother and nurse enabled him to survive those first

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years which must have been so full of anxiety to

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his parents But this small lad had a sweet temper

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and an unselfish contented disposition and so he bore the

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burden of his bad health Is bravely in those days

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as he did in after years and made for himself

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plays in pleasures with his nimble brain while his weary

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body was often tired and restless in that bed where

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of he had so much his mother used to describe

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with the same graphic touch that gives life to all

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her son wrote the bright games the little fellow invented

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for himself when he was well enough to be up

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and about and tell how in a corner of the

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room he made for himself a wonder world all his

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own in which heroes and heroines of romance loved and

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fought and walked and talked at the bidding of the

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wizard and frakking pinna for okay Compare the way that

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lewis carroll's biographer and robert louis stevenson's biographer described how

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the author's entertain themselves as children providing details from the

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passage and the excerpt described one similarity and one difference

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all right Both biographers described the way the author's created

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their own imaginary worlds as children Carol's biographer says young

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carol made pets of the most odd and unlikely animals

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and encouraged civilized warfare among earthworms Right Well stevenson's biographer

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tells how young stephenson invented games and made a wonder

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world all his own with heroes and heroines One difference

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is that carol's biographer relates the author's childhood play to

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his literary world saying that carol lived in that charming

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wonderland from his famous work Stevenson's biographer simply describes the

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boys playtime activities without making such a claim Yeah it's

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a good thing that young robert look at stephenson didn't

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frolic around playing with snail toads and earth warm since

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he was such a you know delicate child well that

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might have been harnessed health It's also growth Both biographers

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spend time detail in the author's childhood playtime activities and

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describing their imaginary worlds But only carol's biographer relates this

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part of the author's childhood to his literary work So

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we're done That was a lovely romp through wonderland things

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with weird animals ten of ten and you will see

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on the next one

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