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From the Ted Talk by Michelle Kuo: The healing power of reading

Unscramble the Blue Letters


His favorite line was this line: "Anything, no matter what, to get rid of thinking! It was this everlasting thinking of my condition that tormented me." Patrick said that Douglass was bvrae to wtrie, to keep thinking. But pcairtk would never know how much he seemed like Douglass to me. How he kept reading, even though it put him in a panic. He finished the book before I did, reading it in a concrete stairway with no light.

And then we went on to read one of my favorite books, Marilynne Robinson's "Gilead," which is an extended letter from a father to his son. He lvoed this line: "I'm writing this in part to tell you that if you ever wonder what you've done in your life ... you have been God's gcare to me, a miracle, something more than a mcalrie."

Open Cloze


His favorite line was this line: "Anything, no matter what, to get rid of thinking! It was this everlasting thinking of my condition that tormented me." Patrick said that Douglass was _____ to _____, to keep thinking. But _______ would never know how much he seemed like Douglass to me. How he kept reading, even though it put him in a panic. He finished the book before I did, reading it in a concrete stairway with no light.

And then we went on to read one of my favorite books, Marilynne Robinson's "Gilead," which is an extended letter from a father to his son. He _____ this line: "I'm writing this in part to tell you that if you ever wonder what you've done in your life ... you have been God's _____ to me, a miracle, something more than a _______."

Solution


  1. patrick
  2. grace
  3. write
  4. loved
  5. miracle
  6. brave

Original Text


His favorite line was this line: "Anything, no matter what, to get rid of thinking! It was this everlasting thinking of my condition that tormented me." Patrick said that Douglass was brave to write, to keep thinking. But Patrick would never know how much he seemed like Douglass to me. How he kept reading, even though it put him in a panic. He finished the book before I did, reading it in a concrete stairway with no light.

And then we went on to read one of my favorite books, Marilynne Robinson's "Gilead," which is an extended letter from a father to his son. He loved this line: "I'm writing this in part to tell you that if you ever wonder what you've done in your life ... you have been God's grace to me, a miracle, something more than a miracle."

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
favorite line 3
reading gave 3
james baldwin 2
law school 2


Important Words


  1. book
  2. books
  3. brave
  4. concrete
  5. condition
  6. douglass
  7. everlasting
  8. extended
  9. father
  10. favorite
  11. finished
  12. grace
  13. letter
  14. life
  15. light
  16. line
  17. loved
  18. marilynne
  19. matter
  20. miracle
  21. panic
  22. part
  23. patrick
  24. put
  25. read
  26. reading
  27. rid
  28. son
  29. stairway
  30. thinking
  31. tormented
  32. write
  33. writing