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Summary Of The Sanctuary Of School By Lynda Barry
In Lynda Barry’s essay “The Sanctuary of School” she talks about how her school taught her how to “build a life preserver that she could carry home”. This statement at first glance seems extremely ambiguous but if you look at it carefully it is only slightly ambiguous While this statement is ambiguous I believe it means that school taught her how to find or make something good in her hectic life that helped make life worth living and that she was able to take her love of drawing home and even do it there. In Barry’s essay she talks of how hectic her life was with her family being poor and yet often having to take in various family members and because of that she was often neglected by her parents. It is because of this that I believe that
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