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The One-Eared Intellectual Analysis

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The One-Eared Intellectual was very enjoyable for me because it was told through a child’s eyes. Children have crazy, wild imaginations so at the beginning when the little girl says “In my town there lives a man with an enormous intellect and only one ear. When I was a little girl, I thought that the two things were connected, that giving up one ear was simply the price you had to pay to be that smart”. When I read those lines I found it to be humorous that she associated his intellect with his missing ear. The other quote I found humorous is at the end when she says “Whatever Mr. Harris is saying when that ear comes off is seared into memory forever”. The reason I enjoy this line brings a funny image into my head of a man taking off his glasses

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