Tina Burton's Essay: Does This Mean Anything To You?

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Does This Mean Anything To You?"
I think what made her write the essay was the fact that she saw a teenage girl going through the same thing she went through when she was her age.
Yes, it was very moving for me. I have seen something like what she went through and it is very tough to do what she did alone, with no support. I did not expect a more argumentative tone because she was at peace with the decision she had to make, to better her child.
It shows that in that day in time unwed mothers were looked down upon and that there was a good bit of them as well. "Facing Famine"
I think it might have been to inform people of the real hardship that people in third world countries were going through. It shows that he was feeling many things, not just one emotion, " Yes, Berhanu said calmly, that is part of it." (pg.135, Hains)
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" A Student Writer: Tina Burton's 'The Watermelon Wooer' "
It was an open assignment and she was asked to write an essay using examples.
The openness, finding the right topic, trying not to make it seem too sentimental, the beginning of the essay, was difficult on the other hand, ideas, information about her topic.
She had three drafts before the final copy because she was trying her best to make her grandfather

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