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Specific textual examples of what youve observed when reading at this levelcited in MLA format. (You may use numbers or bullets here to take notes)

They were related to the This Family and the That Family, which, as every Southerner knew, entitled them to membership in that enormous peerage which largely populated the Confederacy."

He closed his eyes, and then, opening them, looked again. There was no mistake--he was gazing at a man of threescore and ten--a baby of threescore and ten, a baby whose feet hung over the sides of the crib in which it was reposing.

Mr. Button stood there upon the sidewalk, stupefied and trembling from head to foot. What horrible mishap had occurred? He had suddenly lost all desire to go into the Maryland Private Hospital for Ladies and Gentlemen--it was with the greatest difficulty that, a moment later, he forced himself to mount the steps and enter the front door.

So young Mr. and Mrs. Roger Button were fifty years ahead of style when they decided, one day in the summer of 1860, that their first baby should be born in a hospital.

Demonstrate the development of complexity of thought at each level by writing a descriptive response to what youve written in the row above. (Analyze your thought patterns when observing the examples youve listed abovethese may also be in notetaking form)

When Fitzgerald wrote This family and That family you really got the sense of how important image was in their society even in the 1800s, also words like entitled and peerage completely encompassed the idea.

The baby portrayed as an old man is the entire reason for this book. Obviously Benjamin isnt 70 years old as he was just born a few hours ago in this section.

The selected sentences are full of rhetorical questions and commas and purposeful pauses. In this moment when Mr. Button was completely unaware of how horrible this night would actually prove to be, the scene is made even more dramatic by the endless sentences and the pauses.

This is a complete different time from now obviously because it is basically required that babies are born in the hospital nowadays, in this time the Buttons thought they were hipsters in a way, they were leading the way through society and changing social norms in order to stay in peoples gossip and still be the best known family in town.