| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Silas Marner by George Eliot: still thought the piece of cake worth the risk of putting his hand
out for it.
"Oh, for shame, Aaron," said his mother, taking him on her lap,
however; "why, you don't want cake again yet awhile. He's
wonderful hearty," she went on, with a little sigh--"that he is,
God knows. He's my youngest, and we spoil him sadly, for either me
or the father must allays hev him in our sight--that we must."
She stroked Aaron's brown head, and thought it must do Master Marner
good to see such a "pictur of a child". But Marner, on the other
side of the hearth, saw the neat-featured rosy face as a mere dim
round, with two dark spots in it.
Silas Marner |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne: one get before us in this design of discovering the centre of the
earth."
CHAPTER VII.
A WOMAN'S COURAGE
Thus ended this memorable seance. That conversation threw me into a
fever. I came out of my uncle's study as if I had been stunned, and
as if there was not air enough in all the streets of Hamburg to put
me right again. I therefore made for the banks of the Elbe, where the
steamer lands her passengers, which forms the communication between
the city and the Hamburg railway.
Was I convinced of the truth of what I had heard? Had I not bent
Journey to the Center of the Earth |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 1 by Alexis de Toqueville: it to suit its purposes.
Chapter XVI: Causes Mitigating Tyranny In The United States -
Part II
Trial By Jury In The United States Considered As A Political
Institution
Trial by jury, which is one of the instruments of the sovereignty
of the people, deserves to be compared with the other laws which
establish that sovereignty - Composition of the jury in the
United States - Effect of trial by jury upon the national
character - It educates the people - It tends to establish the
authority of the magistrates and to extend a knowledge of law
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