Directions: See 13. The quote below contains at least eight errors. Circle these errors carefully, then rewrite the quotation so that it is formatted correctly. In O’Brien explains: When she was nine, my daughter The Things They Carried, “ Kathleen asked if I had ever killed anyone. She knew about the war; she knew I’d been a soldier. keep writing these war stories,” she said, I guess you must’ve killed “You “so somebody.” It was a difficult moment…”(O’Brien, p. 131). 14. Rewrite the quotation below, but remove the phrase get and appetite for breakfast “to and meditate his sermon.” Please also replace the word with the word “anathema” Use correct MLA format and punctuation to signal that you made these changes. “curse.” next morning young Goodman Brown came slowly into the street of Salem village, “The staring around him like a bewildered man. The good old minister was taking a walk along the graveyard to get an appetite for breakfast and meditate his sermon, and bestowed a blessing, as he passed, on Goodman Brown. He shrank from the venerable saint as if to avoid an anathema” (Hawthorne 89) 15. The paragraph below is from Blues.” Quote only the second sentence “Sonny’s exactly as it would appear if you cited it in a formal paper using MLA citation. Introduce the quoted sentence with the phrase: the sound of Sonny’s music, the narrator “At remarks.” Please also add emphasis to the phrase we would listen” to make it stand “if out from the rest of the quote. I seemed to hear with what burning he had made it his, and what burning we had yet to make it ours, how we could cease lamenting. Freedom lurked around us and I understood, at last, that he could help us to be free if we would listen, that he would never be free until we did. Yet, there was no battle in his face now, I heard what he had gone through, and would continue to go through until he came to rest in earth.
Directions: See 13. The quote below contains at least eight errors. Circle these errors carefully, then rewrite the quotation so that it is formatted correctly. In The Things They Carried, O’Brien explains: “ When she was nine, my daughter Kathleen asked if I had ever killed anyone. She knew about the war; she knew I’d been a soldier. “You keep writing these war stories,” she said, “so I guess you must’ve killed somebody.” It was a difficult moment…”(O’Brien, p. 131). 14. Rewrite the quotation below, but remove the phrase “to get and appetite for breakfast and meditate his sermon.” Please also replace the word “anathema” with the word “curse.” Use correct MLA format and punctuation to signal that you made these changes. “The next morning young Goodman Brown came slowly into the street of Salem village, staring around him like a bewildered man. The good old minister was taking a walk along the graveyard to get an appetite for breakfast and meditate his sermon, and bestowed a blessing, as he passed, on Goodman Brown. He shrank from the venerable saint as if to avoid an anathema” (Hawthorne 89) 15. The paragraph below is from “Sonny’s Blues.” Quote only the second sentence exactly as it would appear if you cited it in a formal paper using MLA citation. Introduce the quoted sentence with the phrase: “At the sound of Sonny’s music, the narrator remarks.” Please also add emphasis to the phrase “if we would listen” to make it stand out from the rest of the quote. I seemed to hear with what burning he had made it his, and what burning we had yet to make it ours, how we could cease lamenting. Freedom lurked around us and I understood, at last, that he could help us to be free if we would listen, that he would never be free until we did. Yet, there was no battle in his face now, I heard what he had gone through, and would continue to go through until he came to rest in earth.