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Re: meaning of this word ?
Hi Sara,
the verb “blow” has many possible meanings. One of its meanings is “to make a sound as a result of being blown”, e.g. “The ships’ horns blew in the harbor”, but that meaning isn’t often used about children. In my view, the more likely meaning is “to be propelled by an air current”, since the same meaning also applies to “Past the tiny lives the children blew” — blowing past something strongly suggests being propelled by the wind, like fallen leaves in the autumn.
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Chris
September 2, 2017
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sara ..
September 1, 2017
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Re: meaning of this word ?
Hi Sara,
the part of the story that you had quoted said that the wind blew the children rather than just their clothes, and that the bits were carried by the stems rather than merely mixed with them. Unless some other part of the story gives more details of that scene, I don’t understand the basis of your teacher’s interpretation of the bits as clothes and the stems as stalks.
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Chris
August 31, 2017
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sara ..
August 29, 2017
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Re: meaning of this word ?
Hi Sara,
the bits could be clothes. What does your teacher believe the stems to be?
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Chris
August 29, 2017
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Re:Re: meaning of this word ?
Hi chris
i asked my teacher about this,she said "bits"are clothes wich the wind grabed them.
"up the street mixed in the wind blew the childeren,and turned the corner onto the brownish-red brick school court.it was wonderful.bits of pink of blue,white,green,purple,brown,black,,carried by jerky little stems of brown or yellow or brown-black,blew by the unhandsome gray and decay of the double-apartment building,past the little plots of dirt and scanty grass that held up their narrow brave banners:PLEASE KEEP OFF THE GRASS.there were lives in the buldings.past the tiny lives the children blew."
do you think bits are clothes?
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sara ..
August 27, 2017
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Re: meaning of this word ?
Hi Sara,
to me, it is unlikely that “bits” refers to dandelions, because of the reasons that you had noted. However, I haven’t read this book, so I don’t know the full context of these chapters in this book.
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Chris
August 26, 2017
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Hello . I need someone who know english and frensh
Hello everyone . My wife want to learn English.Actually she know Arabic and little French. She can exchange with you Arabic instead. So I need a teacher who is multi-language (English and French) preferably a female like her. Thank you so much for consideration.
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ahmed k.
August 26, 2017
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Re:Re: meaning of this word ?
Hi Chris,you are such kind man.thank's for your help.
is it possible that "Bit's"refers to dandelion's?
because in last chapter the author described dandelions!
but dandelions arent colorful!and dandelion's stem is green!
have you seen colorful dandelion?
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sara ..
August 24, 2017
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Re: meaning of this word ?
Hi Sara,
in my view, the author is imagining the children who are going to school as being blown towards school by the wind. The bits of several colors might refer to the children’s hats, and the “jerky little stems” might refer to the children’s coats, with the jerkiness being due to the children running, then stopping, then running again in different directions in the school’s courtyard. The bits of colors being carried by the “stems” suggest that the children are being compared to flowers, although flowers aren’t usually blown somewhere by the wind.
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Chris
August 24, 2017
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