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Here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by boxing champions

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we pitched a screenplay about a guy who boxes things faster than anyone else [People boxing teddy bears]

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named schmucky we're still waiting to hear back in the studio let's check out

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today's question which of the following books would most likely contains a theme

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of isolation and here the potential answers....

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ah yes nothing says fun Saturday night like sitting down to a lovely book on [Man celebrating birthday party alone]

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the theme of isolation right well before we start let's remember that isolation

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means the state of being apart from people so if any of the books described

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in our answers don't fit that idea we can toss them off our list or sorry [Selection of books appear]

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women recycle them off our list all right let's take a look at it this one

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doesn't seem like a great fit since there's no mention of the boxer being

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apart from people draw we know he might be a very social boxer with lots of [Man punching a boxing bag]

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boxing friends we only occasionally punches so a is down for the count what

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about see does it mentions that the book is about a group of people and it's very

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tough to be apart from people when you're all together unless you have one [Lots of people walking in a crowd]

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of those giant plastic bubbles let's do it since our answer says nothing about [Person trapped in bubble and bubble pops]

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giant plastic bubbles we can recycle it see what about D well this one's closer

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but not quite there sure the spider is lost but being lost and being isolated

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are very different things for example the lost fighter might meet [Spider appears on the ground]

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a whole bunch of different bugs on its way home and although that might sound

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like pitch for 6 hour movie it is in isolation so D is a 2 and that leaves us

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with B now we're talking this option mentions that the boys lonely and

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struggling to make friends in a new school which are perfect ingredients for

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the sad soup of isolation that means B is our answer and we're done feel free [A soup dish on a table]

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to throw a party and maybe even invite more people enjoy yourself though in [Boy with friends celebrating birthday]

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that case you'd have to share the cake so what well maybe

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