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Mama was calling to me. I started awake, realizing it must be almost midnight. “Mary,” she said, “where’s your homework?” Then I remembered. I had not finished it. I had not left my completed papers on the kitchen table, where she could see from the last of three jobs that she held. “Oh, Mama, I fell asleep,” I told her weakly.
“Well, you’d better get up now and finish your work. Your studies come first!” she said. I dragged (拖) myself out of bed, found my books and set out to work. As I did so, I could not help grumbling (抱怨). Why me? Why did she always seem to pick me out, for such treatment? Those feelings were nothing new, but I did not give voice to them.
Mama had given me one gift, however, I had the habit of happiness, so even if my small world was not fully sunny, neither was it sad. I also loved to talk, a character not always appreciated by Miss Jordan, my tenth-grade strict English teacher. She was very thin and wore her hair pulled back.
One day in her class I was so busy talking that I didn’t realize she had stopped teaching and was glaring (瞪眼) at me. “Young lady, I would like to see you after school.”
Later Miss Jordan explained that when she was talking she expected me to listen. “For punishment I want you to write a thousand-word article on education and its influence on society,” she said, “and turn it in by next Wednesday.”
Well, I finished it on time. I was confident. It was a good paper. Next day in class, however, she called me forward and returned my paper. “Go back and rewrite it,” she said. “Remember, each paragraph is supposed to begin with a topic sentence.” When she returned my paper a second time, she corrected the spelling. The third time, the grammar. The fourth time, it was rhetoric (修辞). The fifth time, it wasn’t neat enough. I was sick. The sixth time, I rewrote the whole paper slowly, in ink. When she saw it, she smiled. She finally accepted the paper. After that, I put the whole thing out of my mind.
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One day, Miss Jordan came into the class and said, “Class, do you still remember an essay contest held citywide?”
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