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GED Reasoning through Language Arts 4.1 Reading Skills. What is the narrator suggesting by referring to the Buttons' decision to have a child as "the charming old custom of having babies" in paragraph 3?


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Sorry And here's your shmoop du jour Brought to you

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by benny buttons Age reversing miracle cream look impossibly young

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right up until the day you turned into a fetus

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and well vanish All right we're reading have been real

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All right what is the narrator suggesting by referring to

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the buttons decision to have a child as the charming

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old custom of having babies in paragraph three Well the

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answers are yeah All right breathing the passage we definitely

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get the sense that the buttons are high society types

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They know that this is and that's a very old

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money if you know what we mean And roger button

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hopes his soon to be born son will carry on

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the proud yaeli tradition now considering answer a it isn't

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the case that childbirth was somehow more pleasant in the

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buttons time Unfortunately the pain of childbirth has pretty much

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been in constant throughout human history so let's go ahead

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and women a day In fact the text really makes

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no mention of the history of child bearing at all

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unless the subtext in the passage is very sub textual

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Well it's not the passage isn't about the history of

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childbirth so b is out and the phrase charming old

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custom of having babies doesn't really imply that the southerners

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viewed having kids is a matter of great dignity In

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fact what's implied is almost the exact opposite Mr button

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seems to think about making babies as some sort of

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a game a sort of amusing hami toe idly occupy

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the time though answer d is the correct choice the

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narrator is playfully saying that the buttons regard having a

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baby is a kind of frivolous hobby because baby making

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is the most fun game in town Unless of course

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your baby is a reverse aging medical oddity that defies

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modern science Well then you might want to go ahead 00:02:04.08 --> [endTime] and take up golf

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