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Summary And Personal Response: Farm Girl By Jessica Hemauer
Assignment 1.2: Summary and Personal Response-“Farm Girl” by Jessica Hemauer
Gloria Warner
Professor Amy Williams
ENG115: English Composition
August 11, 2013

From reading the passage “Farm Girl” by Jessica Hemauer, helped me realize how easy I had it as a child. She has had big responsibilities all her life, and I myself was amazed on how she managed it all. The genre of this passage is a nonfiction narrative. She tells a true story about her life, and I never got bored reading this at all. To begin, the writer starts by telling how she has to get up hours before school starts to do her chores on the farm. She is the youngest sibling out of three older brother and sisters. They all have the same morning routine. “We take our turns

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