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donquan
donquan
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What do you think Miss Moore's motives are in spending time with the children?

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Posted by donquan on Wednesday September 26, 2007 at 8:25 AM and tagged with characters, miss moores motives, the lesson.

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  1. sagetrieb Teacher
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    As a brief addendum to that answer, Miss Moore seems to want them to feel that discomfort--she wants them to be upset.  Indeed, she pushes and pushes the narrator, who is not willing to show that she is learning something from her day in the city. "Anybody else learn anything today?" [Miss Moore says] lookin dead at me.  I walk away...." Earlier the narrator says that she wouldn't give "the bitch that satisfaction" of talking to her because she resents discovering that she does not have the power she would like to think, that her power is limited to her neighborhood and therefore ineffective in the larger world of life.

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    Posted by sagetrieb on Wednesday September 26, 2007 at 7:28 PM