The Time I Ever Told A Lie To My Mother Summary

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As I read “ The Time I Ever Told a Lie to my Mother” and “Two Lies”, two versions of a story both by Nancie Atwell, I noticed the details portrayed more in the second version. Such as the narrative element, and the setting. According to the first version, “It was 1956. I was five years old and it was the fall of my kindergarten year in Mrs. Brown’s class..”(Atwell 1, pg.1). In this version, I discovered that the writer was five years old during that certain year, how far into kindergarten she was, and the name of her teacher. During the second version, I read that, “ I jumped down the steps, skipped up to our porch burst through our back door and yelled.”... “ I was standing in our fenced-in backyard”(Atwell 2, pg.2). From this version, I …show more content…

As stated in the first version, “ a really good piece of clay was lying on the floor. I don’t know why, but I picked it up and started rolling it around on my skirt. It made a big mess on my skirt.”(Atwell 1, pg.1). After I read this, I could assume that all the little girl did was take a piece of clay, and roll it on her skirt, which caused a stain. In the second version, it says, “ That morning at nap time, curled up on my kindergarten mat I had spied a prize on the classroom floor: an exquisite lump of pink clay.”... “ Now I considered how much fun it would be to flatten out that lump. But on what? I looked around. There my my mat- too sticky. There was the floor- too dirty. And ooooo-there was my dress. I spread the skirt of the dress on the mat, smoothed the material and started kneading the clay. By the time the boy who was the nap fairy came along to tap me with the nap wand on and tell me I could get up, the skirt of my yellow dress had turned pink.” (Atwell 2,pg.1). This version gave so much detail that it was very interesting and enjoyable to read. It revealed to me, the color of the clay, the decision of where to put it, how she played with the clay, and the color of her dress. It also made it easier to understand the

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