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Thank you We sneak in and here's your shmoop douceur

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brought to you by the happy isles because the shmoop

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douceur from the sad isles was just bumming everybody out

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All right take the following passage from somerset Mom The

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trembling of a leaf Yeah that's is not that that

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electric car Okay here we go In paragraph one the

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author likens the stormy sea So what And here the

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potential answers a b c and the difference see so

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here's Another question asking to what the author is comparing

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the c o that somerset he loved his comparisons He

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does not however compare the stormy scene the happy isles

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which means we can nix choice deep ulysses made his

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search for the happy isles on rough seas like this

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one If the rough seas were like the happy isles

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well then there wouldn't be much need to go find

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the islands now would there way could just chill in

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the happy white caps Well there's no support for sea

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at also will eliminate it without a second thought Even

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though the passage does mention that the ocean will make

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you forget your vanished youth it doesn't mean it in

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a coming of age kind of way it's More of

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a leave your past behind livin the moment kind of

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way If you get our drift king in the world

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he doesn't do it for us either Again the author

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says the pacific will make us forget our youth but

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he doesn't compare that youth to the stormy sea While

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choice is the right answer the author talks about the

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rough sea with high winds and white crests of waves

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and tells the reader you are filled with impatience for

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the unknown in a restless intolerable desire for life in

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other words the stormy ocean makes you want to seek

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adventure and it also makes you want a few Weii 00:01:49.042 --> [endTime] we've been there it's not pretty

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