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Summary Of Tracy Lett's Article August: Osage County

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About "August: Osage County" by author Tracy Letts, the way he explained the book that they had dysfunctional family because everybody has their problem even they talking about why everybody was different but a lot of bad thing happen with this book. They are also living in the farm which is depressing because when they live the farm and you feel like this story going be depression and knew bad thing would something happen. To related literacy, I would pick Garber’s article, “The Use and Abuse of Literature” because she had topic about why many author decide to make to sad story as literary and that would help me explain to related this book for literary because it has a lot of showing of emotional, arguing, bad relationship and other stuff

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