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Do Now: How do you react to the idea of marriage—committing to someone for life? What are the advantages of such a union? What are the disadvantages? Think of an account--a story--from real life (history, news, family) or from fiction (books, movies, tv) to support your position on marriage. Stories that prove our point… Pro Marriage No Marriage Aim: What is narration? One afternoon in late August, as the summer’s sun streamed into the railroad car and made little jumping shadows on the windows , I sat gazing out at the tenement-dwellers, who were themselves looking out of their windows from the gray crumbling buildings along the tracks of upper Manhattan. As we crossed into the Bronx, the train unexpectedly slowed down for a few miles. Suddenly from out of my window I saw a large crowd near the tracks, held back by two policemen. Then, on the other side of my window, I saw a sight I will never forget: A little boy almost severed in halves, lying in an incredible angle near the track. The ground was covered with blood, and the boy’s eyes were opened wide, strained and disbelieving in his sudden oblivion. A policeman stood next to him, his arms folded, staring straight ahead at the windows of our train. In the orange glow of late afternoon the policemen, the crowd, the corpse of the boy were for a brief moment immobile, motionless, a small tableau to violence and death in the city. Behind me, in the next row of seats… …there was a game of bridge. I heard one of the four men say as he looked out at the sight, “God, that’s horrible.” Another said in a whisper, “Terrible, terrible.” There was a momentary silence, punctuated only by the clicking of the wheels on the track. Then, after the pause, I heard the first man say: “Two hearts.” --On a Commuter Train, Willie Morris Aim: What is narration? As a group, complete the organizer. Aim: What is narration? Aim: What is narration? Why do you think Chopin chose to write this as