Active Reading Questions

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1. When Smiley started working at a horse stable my thought of chores changed to I should work hard to keep things neat because it will make life a little easier. She describes this when she began to realize that she needed to help out a little around the house and also at work. The impact would be the same because any where you place this incident in the essay the effect of it would be the same.

2. Smiley uses the evidence of her husband doing a work while he was a child and the fact that your parents would tell you to do chores and they would be doing the easy parts. The reasons aren't really authoritative because chores can vary by the amount of people that are spoken to. This reveals that her intended audience was people that somewhat had chores but didn't really do them because of other things and then realized how much chores effect your life when they get a job.

3. Smiley gives an emphasis when using rhetorical questions because she wants to get the fact that your parents make you do chores while they take on the easy chores. My reaction is that it does help the essay when trying to push doing chores.