“When
done, they went and squatted by the water, each scouring his own plate
in river sand. Then the white man threw sticks on the coals of the
cook fire, building it up with no eye toward thrift of wood until flame
stood shoulder high. The show folk passed a bottle around and sat
telling Inman stories of their endless travels. The road, they said,
was a place apart, a country of its own ruled by no government but natural
law, and its one characteristic was freedom. Their stories were of
being broke and of sudden windfalls. Card games and horse auctions
and the wonderful prevalence of the witless. Various tight spots
with the law, disasters narrowly averted, fools bested in trade, wisemen
met on the road and their often contradictory wisdom. Townships of
gullibility and of particular viciousness. They reminded each other
of certain camp places and of meals eaten in them, and they reached consensus
that the finest of all was a place some years in the past where a river
of considerable size poured directly from the base of a rock face, and
they likewise agreed that they had never eaten better fried chicken than
they had cooked in the shadow of that cliff.” --Page 128
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What
is the topic?
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Does
everyone in the group focus on the same thing about the passage as its
central message or are there minor differences of opinion and interpretation?
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How
does this passage relate to things you already know and believe (from experience,
other classes, etc.)?
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Express
and reflect upon your personal values and feelings related to anything
you found meaningful and relevant in the passage and your prior knowledge
/ schema.
