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Thanksgiving: A Personal History

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In life, being conflicted is always a difficult situation. Figuring out how to deal with or solve the problem can be even harder. Referring to the story,Thanksgiving:A Personal History, the main character, Jennifer, is conflicted between whether to keep her traditional Thanksgiving routine or to adopt a modern one. When it came to celebrating Thanksgiving as a child, Jennifer became accustomed to her family’s ‘get-togethers’. For example, she states that “upstairs, a football game hummed from the T.V. ...and the stereo piped one of [her] grandmother’s classical music 8-tracks from room to room.”(New,68-69) Then, later in the day, “Thanksgiving supper, held in the dim light of late afternoon”, was “the moment that brought [them] together-[her]

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