Summary Of Hangover By Jennifer Pashley

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The article I read for this week named Hangovers by Jennifer Pashley. In my opinion, the article was about how a hangover can affect himself / herself and his / her family. Various vivid scenarios are presented in this article to alert readers the heart-wrenching ending of alcohol abuse. For example, Pashley described at the end of this article about a pity family: a drunk mother, a child with broken arm, a beaten dog, etc. (Pashley, 2014).

I would recommend the reading to my classmates because I really like Pashley’s writing method. Besides these lively cases, she engaged a significant title which contains multiple meanings (“alcohol abuse” and “remaining”). I recognized Pashley was using the term “hangover” to highlight the lasting effect

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