| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Adventure by Jack London: of terrorism when the original owners of Berande had been driven
away. The new recruits, being broken in under the new regime, gave
better promise. Joan had joined with Sheldon from the start in the
programme that they must be gripped with the strong hand, and at
the same time be treated with absolute justice, if they were to
escape being contaminated by the older boys that still remained.
"I think it would be a good idea to put all the gangs at work close
to the house this afternoon," she announced one day at breakfast.
"I've cleaned up the house, and you ought to clean up the barracks.
There is too much stealing going on."
"A good idea," Sheldon agreed. "Their boxes should be searched.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Lone Star Ranger by Zane Grey: misguided fools who could believe that he had harmed a woman.
Then he remembered Kate Bland, and, as always when she returned
to him, he quaked inwardly. Years before word had gone abroad
that he had killed her, and so it was easy for men wanting to
fix a crime to name him. Perhaps it had been done
often. Probably he bore on his shoulders a burden of numberless
crimes.
A dark, passionate fury possessed him. It shook him like a
storm shakes the oak. When it passed, leaving him cold, with
clouded brow and piercing eye, his mind was set. Spurring his
horse, he rode straight toward the village.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett: all about the bay, and what a sight o' sails you used to see, in
Mr. Dimmick's day, standing across to the mainland on a pleasant
Sunday morning, filled with church-going folks, all sure to want
him some time or other! You couldn't find no doctor that would
stand up in the boat and screech if a flaw struck her."
"Old Dr. Bennett had a beautiful sailboat, didn't he?"
responded Mrs. Todd. "And how well he used to brave the weather!
Mother always said that in time o' trouble that tall white sail
used to look like an angel's wing comin' over the sea to them that
was in pain. Well, there's a difference in gifts. Mr. Dimmick was
not without light."
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