Misbehave In The Three Century Woman By Richard Peck

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Have you ever wondered why people misbehave and how they misbehave ? Well In the story “ The Three Century Woman” by Richard Peck here’s an old lady who have live through three centuries and is interviewed by a TV reporter. She starts to misbehave when the reporter starts to interview her. She misbehaves by lying to the reporter that she’s been through the San Francisco earthquake of 1906. We know that she lie to the reporter about this is because her daughter said that the old lady have never been to San Francisco. Another thing that she lie to the reporter is that her husband die young, we know that she lie about this is because the old lady daughter said that when she was born the old lady husband was still alive. The last thing that she

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