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GED Reasoning through Language Arts 2.5 Reading Skills. Which quotation best supports the idea that Gregor feels isolated before his transformation?


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Sorry and here's your shmoop du jour brought to you

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by the number one The loneliest number Yeah i remember

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i just for number one All right now check out

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these two paragraphs gone Reading a beatles song Number nine

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John lennon did go over 9 we're doing boring So

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with a point all right you done reading all right

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which quotation best supports the idea that greg or feels

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isolated before his transformation during our answers are gone My

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parents ready all right well reading through these it's pretty

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clear that breakers life isn't exactly the bee's knees or

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even roaches but these quotes don't portray gregor as living

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in isolation A traveling every day doesn't necessarily mean he's

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alone unless of course he was riding the train and

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releasing some very cockroaches stink possible So it's not a

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anyway uh answer c doesn't really suggest isolation either because

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gregor would probably be happy or not I have to

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think about his parents all right and yes gregers broke

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but that still doesn't mean he's lonely sad panels cockroach

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always on the move nothing Fuck reading gregor's quote In

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answer b we see that he panics about meeting people

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and has trouble being friendly and we definitely get the

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sense he's a very lonely unpopular guy one giant cockroach

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alone without a nest The answer is b because one

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really is the loneliest number especially if you're broke neurotic

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unstable and have two foot long feelers for years Great

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