Epigraphs, or quotations, often appear at the beginning of a work to summarize or emphasize author’s purpose. Epigraph: Why did Oates choose these two epigraphs to open her essay?

the black night was split open like the coconut

it says that it was totally black in the mind of a person but suddenly his mind opened like a coconut with the sweetness of the coconut water and the white color inside it.

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the black night was thrown like a coconut and it slit apart with its sweet water coming out .

he chooses to climb mount everest and decided not to any more due to the 1,000s of people making a line on the mountion

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