Question

Read: I used to like going to have my hair cut. I liked the mirrors in the room and all the smells of the lotions and shampoos. I liked to sit there--young and fresh and pretty--and see what the women were having done, to make themselves look younger and prettier. I liked the way my mother’s hairdresser teased me about boyfriends and dances. Not anymore, though. Somebody held the door open so my mother could wheel me in, and a few people who had met me came around to say how sorry they were.

Cynthia Voigt, Izzy, Willy-Nilly


Q: Which details were added that change the direction of the passage. Highlight those words using pink. Note that the narrator’s reason for not liking haircuts anymore is not directly explained. Nevertheless, you know what happened.

Explain how these details in pink helped you infer what there was a change for the character.

Answer 1

Ok so highlight in pink, "Somebody held the door open so my mother could wheel me in, and a few people who had met me came around to say how sorry they were."

These details helped me infer why the character didn't like anymore going to barber shop because it says in the text that, "Somebody held the door open so my mother could wheel me in, and a few people who had met me came around to say how sorry they were," this sentence says that the character doesn't like going to the barber shop anymore because she is now in a wheelchair, and the people their that saw her went to her to say sorry, and thats how these statements help me infer why she didn't like to go anymore.

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