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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane: The youth glancing at his companion could
see by the shadow of a smile that he was making
some kind of fun.
As they plodded on the tattered soldier con-
tinued to talk. "Besides, if I died, I wouldn't
die th' way that feller did. That was th' funniest
thing. I'd jest flop down, I would. I never seen
a feller die th' way that feller did.
"Yeh know Tom Jamison, he lives next door
t' me up home. He's a nice feller, he is, an' we
was allus good friends. Smart, too. Smart as a
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