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 What can you infer about the writer's problem?
a. The writer still struggles to get out of bed'
as a teenager'
b. It was easier to get out of bed as a child than
father?
4. What can you infer about the writer's
a. He used to get uP earlY'
get up'
b. He was annoyed because the writer wouldnt
to the father?
5. What can you infer from the writer's response
a. The writer has a good sense of humor'
b. The writer would get up right away'

ffiK&re&ffi& x ! sira by Bird

2. Read their definitions' Then complete

Here are some words from Reading
each sentence.

capture (v.) to accurately express a feeling or atmosphere

creative(odl.)involvingtheuseofskillorimaginationtoprodUcesomethingnew
period of time in someone's life
episode (n.) an event, a situation' or a
larger or more important than it really
is
exaggerate (v') to make something seem
about something
impassioned (adi.) showing strong feelings
do something
motivate (v.) to make someone want to
thought
profound (adi.) serious; showing knowledge or
or something
rely on (phr.v.)to need or depend on someone
protection
refuge (n.) a place or thing that gives
something you think is unfair
resentful (adl.) feeling bitter or angry about
significance (n.) the importance of something
L*o".a (v.) to have an idea that something is probably true i

a person to travei.
1. Studying anewlanguage can

2. My friends their stories so much it's hard to know

which Parts are true'

go to Italy
3. My sister speaks Italian very well' so whenever we
her to translate,

as children?
64 UNIT 3| Wtrat important lessons do we learn
*1: ;,'";*,, Read the excerpt.

Bird by Bird
Every morning, no matter how late he had been
up, my father rose at 5:30, went to his study, wrote
for a couple of hours, made us all breakfast, read
the paper with my mother, and then went back to
work for the rest of the morning. Many years passed
,dE' bv' 'gh _
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before I realized that he did this by choice, for

ffi
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a living, and that he was not unemployed or -ree k*-
job
mentally ill. I wanted him to have a regular
where he put on a necktie and went off somewhere
with the other fathers and sat in a little offlce ' ' ' '
someone
Butthe ideaof spending entire days insomeone else's offlce doing
else,s work did not suit my father's soul. I think
it would have killed him'
at least he had lived
He did end up dying rather early, in his midflfties, but
on his own terms.
study aII day
so I grew up around this man who sat at his desk in the
people he had seen
and wrote books and articles about the places and
He could go
and known. He read a lot of poetry. sometimes he traveled.
gifts of being a
anyplace he wanted with a sense of purpose' One of the
explore'
writer is that it gives you an excuse to do things, to go places and
life, at life as it
Another is that writing motivates you to look closely at
lurches by' and tramPs aroundz.
Writing taught my father to pay attention; my father in turn
taught
thoughts and
other people to pay attention and then to write down their
who took
observations. His students were the prisoners at san Quentins
partinthecreative-writingprogram'Buthetaughtme'too'mostlyby
example. He taught the prisoners and me to put a little
bit down on paper
everyday,andtoreadallthegreatbooksandplayswecouldgetourhands
on.Hetaughtustoreadpoetry.Hetaughtustobeboldandoriginalandto
prisoners and me
let ourselves make mistakes . . . . But while he helped the
memories
to discover that we had a lot of feelings and observations and

llurchesby:tomakeasudden,unsteadymovementforwardorsideways
2
tramps around: travels or wanders on foot
3
San Quentin: a state prison in California

UNIT 3 I Wtrat important lessons do we learn as children?

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who may have had serious conversations with grown-ups, who as a young
person, Iike me, accepted being alone quite a lot. I think that this sort of
person often becomes either a writer or a career criminal. Throughout my
childhood I believed that what I thought about was different from what
other kids thought about. It was not necessarily more profound, but there
was a struggle going on inside me to flnd some sort of creative or spiritual
or aesthetic way of seeing the world and organizinglt in my head. I read
more than other kids; I luxuriated in books. Books were my refuge. I sat
in corners with my little flnger hooked over my bottom lip, reading, in a
trances, lost in the places and time to which books took me. And there was
amoment duringmyjunioryearinhigh school when Ibeganto believe that
I could do what other writers were doing. I came to believe that I might be
able to put a pencil in my hand and make something special happen.
Then I wrote some terrible, terrible stories.

8
in a trance: a condition in which you don't notice what is going on around you

fulsrc$ Emr*s
Read the sentences. Then number the main ideas of the paragraphs in the
correct order (1-7).

a. Her father taught his students how to write: to write a little bit every
- day, to read great books, and not to be afraid of making mistakes.

Writing gave her father a reason to explore new things and motivated
-b. him to look at life closely.

c. In high school, she discovered that her classmates really liked

- stories about things that had happened to them-especially if she
exaggerated the stories.

d. Because she had a different way of thinking about things, she started
- to believe that she could be a writer.

e. Her father made the choice to work at home and be a writer.

- f. Because she was nervous and shy, she learned to be funny and
- started writing.

Her father could take events from everyday life and write about them
-g. in a way that expressed the atmosphere or feeling of the time.

68 UNIT 3 I Wtrat important lessons do we learn as children?

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