How Things Work by Gary Soto Reread the first sentence of the poem in lines 1-2. Where would you pause, and what words would you stress to give that sentence meaning and feeling?

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Explanation:

The first two lines of How Things Work by Gary Soto read;

Today its going to cost us twenty dollars

To live. Five for a soft ball. Four for a book

Pauses are in line 2 just where the full stops are

Stresses are on the words: Today, Five, Four

When these words are stressed, the sentence gains more meaning and feeling.

word count 168

serve the people! ,” smoothly translated by julia lovell, offers an initial sample of yan lianke’s writing to an english-speaking audience. a bluntly drawn, mildly erotic fable, it teases mao zedong by poking fun at a true believer who obeys the chairman’s precepts too literally. to a western sensibility, the broad strokes of yan lianke’s humor would seem to pose little risk of inciting rebellion, whether of the flesh or of the body politic. but then, part of the book’s attraction is that it doesn’t have a western sensibility. it lets the reader see — or rather, intuit — what jokes chinese officials don’t consider funny, and how very little it takes for a writer to be branded an incendiary in 21st-century china, more than three decades after the death of mao, a decade after the death of deng xiaoping and seven years since china entered the world trade organization, a move that would seem to signal a willingness (however wary) to mingle with the rest of the world.