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Lesson2 1. I pictured this prodigy part of me as many different images, trying each one on for size. I imagined myself as different types of prodigy, trying to find out which one suited me the best. 2. I had new thoughts , willful thoughts, or rather thoughts filled with lots of won’ts. I had new thoughts, which were filled with a strong spirit of disobedience and rebellion. 3. The girl had the sauciness of a Shirley Temple. The girl was Shirley Temple—like, slightly rude but in an amusing way. 4. It felt like worms and toads and slimy things crawling out of my chest, but it also felt good, as if this awful side of me had surfaced, at last. When I said those words, I felt that some very nasty thoughts had got out of my chest, and so T felt scared. But at the same time I felt good, relieved, because those nasty things had been suppressed in my heart for some time and they had got out at last. 5. And T could sense her anger rising to its breaking point. I wanted to see it spill over. I could feel that her anger had reached the point where her self—control would collapse, and I wanted to see what my mother would do when she lost complete control of herself. 6. The lid to the piano was closed, shutting out the dust, my misery, and her dreams. When the lid to the piano was closed, it shut out the dust and also put an end to my misery. Lesson 3 Yet globalization… “is a reality, not a choice”. Yet globalization is not something that you can accept or reject, it is already a matter of life which you will encounter and have to respond to every day. Popular factions sprout to exploit nationalist anxieties. Political groups with broad support have come into being to take advantage of existing worries and uneasiness among the people about foreign “cultural assault”. …where xenophobia and economic ambition have often struggled for the upper hand… …in China, the two trends of closed—door and open—door policies have long been struggling for dominance. Those peo