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Out If The Dust Literary Analysis

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Out if the Dust by Karen Hesse is about a small town girl named Billie Joe, evolving throughout many hardship that take place in this book. This debate is whether or not Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse should or should not remain in the eighth grade curriculum. Out of the Dust should be part of our eighth grade curriculum because it introduces to students a more advance and emotional form of poetry.

One reason for it should stay is the use of free verse poems gives the reader more detail than an rhyming poem or even a basic novel would give

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