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Examples Of Myrtle Riding In The Hope Chest

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Riding in the Jim Crow car in The Hope Chest by Karen Schwabach, affected Myrtle in many ways like feeling frustrated myrtle felt relieved on page 92 because it says Myrtle was relieved riding in the Jim Crow car, or Myrtle felt foolish because it says she could not get the door open.

or she felt angry because Myrtle feel sad and someone laughed at her all these emotions make her feel different ways like angry for example violet started walking to the next car then she fell and a man laughed and that made myrtle feel angry. And there's relieved for example Myrtle felt relieved when she got to the Jim Crow car or like this Myrtle feeling happy about going to the Jim Crow car and then she is kind of sad sitting there because in the

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