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Author Topic: The "ABCs of BBM": Round 965! (Rules in first post)  (Read 5490299 times)

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"G" is gumption
« Reply #5950 on: August 10, 2006, 04:01:46 pm »
Jack and Lureen both had a large amount of gumption, while Ennis and Alma had little or none.
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"H" is handfuls
« Reply #5951 on: August 10, 2006, 04:02:27 pm »
A few handfuls of hail rattled against the window followed by rain and slippery wind banging the unsecured doorof the next room then and through the night.
(From the short story)
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"I" is internalized
« Reply #5952 on: August 10, 2006, 04:03:06 pm »
Ennis internalized the brutality that was so callously inflicted on Earl.
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"J" is jutted
« Reply #5953 on: August 10, 2006, 04:12:29 pm »
The spoon handles that jutted out of the cans of BetterMost beans reminded Ennis of the tire iron that so callously inflicted the brutality on Earl, which he internalized.

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Sorry, it's contagious.
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"K" is killers
« Reply #5954 on: August 10, 2006, 04:36:01 pm »
Earl's killers were never caught.

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"L" is lifelong
« Reply #5955 on: August 10, 2006, 04:37:23 pm »
Ennis had a lifelong fear of being brutally killed like Earl; just for being himself.

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"M" is mourned
« Reply #5956 on: August 10, 2006, 04:40:22 pm »
All who heard about it mourned the brutality of Jack's death.
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"N" is nine-year-old's
« Reply #5957 on: August 10, 2006, 04:47:06 pm »
We see the brutality inflicted on Earl in a nine-year-old's eyes.
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"O" is obscene
« Reply #5958 on: August 10, 2006, 04:48:32 pm »
The brutality and callousness of Earl's death was obscene.


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"P" is pitiful
« Reply #5959 on: August 10, 2006, 04:56:03 pm »
Ennis had pitiful dreams later on in his life in which the spoon stood in for the tire iron, because he was not able to confront the brutality of Jack's death.
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