His hand, was pale I helped him walk to his machine. He ran his hand
over it, called me good man, roared away.
He calls the speaker
"a good man" though
he's only a teenager.
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I stood there, fifteen.
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Discuss and Decide
What words in the last stanza signal a shift in the speaker's view? What does
the speaker realize at this point?
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Unit 3: Literary Analysis

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