Summary Of A View From The Bridge By Cherokee Mcdonald

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In the essay “A View From the Bridge” by Cherokee McDonald, descriptive words are used to describe the little boy fishing and the fish he caught. All this happened on a little bridge, but I bet it is a moment that this guy will not soon forget. “... As I neared the crest, I saw the kid.”
In paragraphs 29 and 32 the little boy asks, “Could you tell me what he looks like, mister.” He chooses to say this because the little boy is blind and can not actually see the fish. There are many ways the boy could have told the guy that he was blind, but he simply just asked for some help. Another way the words described the boy was blind was wrote in the beginning of the essay. He asked the guy that was jogging to help him find the shrimp that he had dropped.

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