Due today at 10 Choose five chapters from Ch 12-22 (one of those chapters MUST be Chapter 16) to
read in The Last Lecture.
Randy makes many different references to "the brick walls" that he faced. Analyze his
use of the "brick wall" in his stories. Why does he continue to weave that idea throughout
the story? Write TWO well-written paragraphs with at least TWO examples of Randy's
references to the "brick walls" he has faced from the book (with page numbers). Feel free
to use prior chapters in your references as well.

When i was young enough to still spend a long time buttoning my shoes in the morning, i'd listen toward the hall: daddy upstairs was shaving, in the bathroom, and mother downstairs was frying the bacon. they would begin whispering back and forth to each other up and down the stairwell. my father would whistle his phrase, my mother would try to whistle, then hum hers backi drew my buttonhook in and out and listened to it -know it was "the merry widow." the difference was, their song almost floated with laughter. how different from the record, which growled from the beginning, as if the victrola were only slowly being wound up. they kept it running between them, up and down the stairs where i was now just about ready to run clattering down and show them my shoes. what is the effect of the parallelism used in the above excerpt? it establishes the rhythm of a duet to echo the song. it expresses the same ideas. it mirrors opposite ideas. it is a paradox.