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Imagine this: You start to hear a lot about the Holocaust, but you don’t go outside much. It's hard to understand what would happen, what it would be like. This is a lot like the short story, “Snow” by Julia Alvarez. A girl in New York hears about the Holocaust and believes it has started but doesn't know it was just the weather changing. After reading “Snow,” it is clear that the tone of the story develops from positive, to worried, to relief. First, a part of the story that helps to develop my word choice is “lovely.” The main character uses the word lovely to describe and introduce her family and life. This shows that the beginning of the story is positive. Another part of the story that helps develop my word choice is, “The bones in our
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