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  1. Sep 2020
    1. And their ways are fill'd with thorns. 

      This reminds me based on the suffering of Jesus Christ when he has to worn the throw crown and made his head bleeding

    2. And because I am happy, & dance and sing,They think they have done me no injury:

      in a abuse way? does this mean that he is not happy but is actually living a lie of his happiness, was he hit?

    3. And all the hills echoèd.

      I believe that this one is based on hoe children just want to keep playing and playing until it become dark and there is no more sunlight

    4. And are gone to praise God & his Priest & KingWho make up a heaven of our misery.

      this is him praying and asking god that why do parents have to mistreat children, why does there have to be so much misery.

    5. Tho' the morning was cold, Tom was happy & warm,So if all do their duty, they need not fear harm

      I am thinking that maybe he died, due to the cold weather, he sleep died

    6. He'd have God for his father & never want joy.

      I am assuming that he probably need his father in his live, so in his view God can be the father he wanted

    7. And by came an Angel who had a bright key,And he open'd the coffins & set them all free.Then down a green plain leaping laughing they runAnd wash in a river and shine in the Sun.

      An Angel pops up, to set his friends free and go to heaven to god

    8. There's little Tom Dacre, who cried when his headThat curl'd like a lambs back, was shav'd, so I said.

      His hair was probably shaved all off, so he is bald

    9. When my mother died I was very young,And my father sold me while yet my tongue,Could scarcely cry weep weep weep weep. So your chimneys I sweep & in soot I sleep.

      Mother died, and dad wanted money so he sold him, but tom didn't wanted to go, so I imagine him crying here.

    10. That thousands of sweepers Dick, Joe, Ned & JackWere all of them lock'd up in coffins of black,

      He is having a dream based on people he knew that died and see them go to heaven.

    11. it was common in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries to employ orphans or the children of the poor—society's most vulnerable children—to clean dirty chimneys.

      This remind me of the times of the holocuast, where children were forced to work as well as their parents.

    12. that slaves were not destined to be slaves, nor the poor destined to be poor.

      I agree based on this sentence, its like we didn't chooses to be what we wanted to be, it was just gods choice to put us into that place, but at the same time it is also us, just society in general.

    13. The Revolution deposed the French king, Louis XVI, and his wife, Marie Antoinette, and sentenced them to death-by-guillotine.

      What was the reason why they were sentenced to death?

  2. Aug 2020
    1. I remember once looking up from my reading,my thumb as a bookmark,trying to imagine what the person must look likewhy wrote 'Don't be a ninny'a

      A way that he describes how people are trying to connect to what the author meaning is saying in the book.

    2. A few greasy looking smearsand next to them, written in soft pencil-by a beautiful girl, I could tell,whom I would never meet-'Pardon the egg salad stains, but I'm in love.' 

      This is an example based on how people interact with books that food gets in the way.