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Someone's Mother By Joan Murray

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I found "Someone 's Mother" by Joan Murray interesting. In this reading there were a lot of dialogue to narrate this essay such as descriptive words being used in the reading. For examples the way Murray described the old women hitchhiker waving and also when she made that u-turn and as she drove back up the hill she had on a " dark blue raincoat, jaunty black beret. Thin arms waving, spine a little bent" (Murray, pg163). The dialogue used set a good tone for the rest of the essay. We had a lot of details to go off of and kinda put the story together. The author was so concerned throughout the essay on why and what they hitchhiker was doing in the middle of nowhere. After the old lady was picked up what I got from the reading is that the driver

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