Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 10 AIL 0919 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Whose Truth Is It
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The idea
The second paragraph says this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families that such a man is considered the rightful property of one of their daughters. The opinion is the neighbourhood's, not the narrator's. The first sentence was being reported, not asserted.
In practice
The neighbourhood's view, not the narrator's.
Where people slip
Sentence one was a report.
Your place on the trail
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