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The story is emblematic. The husband did something wrong, the wife is still in love with him, a baby is the possible link between them. What will happen to the baby?
The man doesn’t really care about the baby: he thinks about him only after the women takes his photograph. In my opinion, this means that [...]

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For God’s sake, stop it, she said. Stop it, stop it, it’s mine.
He’s not yours, women! Not more. I’ll take it with me, it’s useless that you fight.
The women looked at the baby, open her eyes wide and humming, this baby is my baby… and we are killing him… she cried, and stopped to pulled. [...]

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Our next journal will be on ‘Popular Mechanics’ by Raymond Carver. For this task, you will assume a particular ending to the story (e.g. the baby died, the baby was taken away from the parents, one of the parents got it). The story could have a range of interpretations depending on what the ending [...]

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