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summer rituals
Jafet Mora
Professor Ryder
ENG101
2-October-2014
Quote of Summer Rituals “Yes, summer was rituals, each with its natural time and place. The ritual of lemonade or ice-tea making, the ritual of wine, shoes, or no shoes, and at last, swiftly following the others, with quiet dignity, the ritual of the front-porch swathing”. Why do I like this quote? I like it for really simple reasons, the first one is that in the whole text this one is the one easiest to understand, the vocabulary is not hard for a person that have problems with this types of reading, because is a good way to start with text, it gives you an idea of what is going to be the text about, and also what he wrote there is like a definition of what rituals are and examples. When I read this introduction, I can not stop thinking about which rituals do I have? What are things that I usually do? An I just could remember that my family and I, we used to go to this beach called “Tivives” it was really small and private but also this beach is dangerous, it has crocodiles, and that really surprised the first day that I saw it, but the point is that we used to went, and we used to do particular things, like fire we used to do fire, to play card games, I used to run in the mornings around the beach and was so beautiful, but this is way I liked this part, It mad eme remind about those things and how I felt in those

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