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Review Of Gary Paulsen's Short Story 'Flowers'

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Support Your Opinion The short story, “Flowers” by Alice Walker, is the most descriptive short story, compared to the other two short stories, “The Dogs could Teach Me” by Gary Paulsen, and “The Sniper” by Liam O’ Flaherty. In paragraph one, the text says, “The air held keenness that made her nose twitch.” This sentence is descriptive, because it describes how the air felt. The short story, “The Dogs could Teach Me” by Gary Paulsen is set in mid-January, and never talks about how frigid the air must’ve felt. My second piece of evidence being paragraph three of “Flowers” by Alice Walker, the text describes a stream, “....tiny, white bubbles disrupt the thin, black scale of soil,

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