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The History Teacher By Billy Collins Analysis

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The History Teacher by Billy Collins, portrays a history teacher as thoughtful and protective over his students. From the beginning, it is shown that the teacher is not giving his students the full story to help maintain their innocence. The very first line of the poem states, “Trying to protect his students’ innocence” The author directly states that the teacher is trying to protect his students by telling them that “ the Ice Age was really just the Chilly Age, a period of a million years when everyone had to wear sweaters.”, instead of telling them about how scary it really was. Similarly, the history teacher goes through many different historical events and downplays them to not sound as bad as they were. “The War of the Roses took place
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