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The statement that expresses a theme found in both "The Antique Shop" and "Don't Go Into the Library" is: Answers to difficult questions are often found in unexpected places. Both the antique shop and the library serve as locations where characters uncover meaning, history, and personal growth that they did not anticipate.
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The lines from the poem "Don't Go Into the Library" that contain a similar idea to the sentence from paragraph 14 of "The Antique Shop" are: You may not come out/ The same person who went in. (lines 23-24) This reflects the transformative experience of gaining knowledge or memories, much like the customers taking home pieces of history from the antique shop.
The Antique Shop
1. Jesse walks the short distance from school to the front door of The Roland and Tla Gloria's small antique business, just as he does every Monday and Wednesday afternoon. He passes by the neighborhood cafe where his friends sit in booths, talking and laughing. He wishes he could join them, but "helping family is important Or at least that's what Papa tells him every time he complains about working for his uncle for free
2. As he approaches the shop, Jesses sees his uncle through the large window, chatting happily with a customer. Pausing to glance at all the junk set out in the window display, Jesse remembers Papa bringing him here when he was little. The shop had seemed magical then, packed with shiny instruments, diverse decorations, and some strangely shaped fumiture.
3 One summer moming Papa had released Jesse's tiny hand to open the door, inviting him to enter this wonderland. Jesse's eyes shot from one end of the wide room to the other, taking in lis treasures
4 "A hijo Papa said, "come see what is back here."
5 At the top of the shop, behind the glass counter was a shelf displaying a cowboy hat like Jesse had seen in those old movies Papa liked to watch
6 "This is the first item your abuele displayed when he opened the shop over 40 years ago, Papa explained. "It's nineteenth century charms cowboy sombrero, given to him by his own grandfather back in Mexico
7 Jesse's young mind tried to grasp this information. His abuelo had an abuelo, and that hat was old!
8 "Is The Roland going to sell it?" Jesse asked.
"Oh, no," Papa had replied. "This is a family heirloom. We just keep it here for customers to admire
10 The bell on the door rings as a customer leaves, and Jesse snaps out of his thoughts
11 He enters the shop and joins his uncle behind the counter, letting his backpack fall to the floor. The store no longer fils Jesse with awe. Although the sombrero still sits in its stately place, everything else seems like old junk.
12 Jesse sits on a tall wooden stool and watches people come and go. Not everyone who comes into the store buys something but those who do often find that one perfect item in the sea of clutter and always seem to have silly grins on their faces when they but those who do often fint that one perfect hem in the sea of clutter and always seem to have sily grinns on their faces when they Nave. De αλάτn exiling a candy Mare
13 "Why do people the at the junk Jess wonders out loud as he looks around the store "It's ond, and some of it doesn't work anymore
14 To Rocand sighs and shakes his head "When people come here, they're not just buying a rusted frombone or an old bicycle Customers are taking a piece of history with them, something that brings back a happy memory or sparks their imagination"
15 Jese con tell that Tie Rutandis tired of trying to explain this to him, so when Tis Glona walks in carrying a large brown box, Jeste welcomes the diversion.
16. "Here. Tha Goria gross as the box lands on the counter with a heavy thud. "This is what I got from that garage sale yesterday"
17. What's this?" The Roland asks as he reaches into the box. Inside, in perfect condition, is an action figure from one of Jesse's tavenie fim sagas, and its in the onginal packaging
18. "On, wow How cox Jesse grips as he grabs for the action Figure
19 "Hal" The Roand excisems, pointing to Jesse with a huge grin on his face "You feel that? That's what customers feel when they come here, the they found just the thing they needed"
20 Jesse hods as if to hell his uncle that he understands. He tums the item over, squinting to read the print on the package and wiping the dust off his shirt. "Can I keep it?" Jesses asks quiety, feeling a ifte sheepish. To Roland and Tha Gloria look at each other, and after a bref moment, they beat's nod. Jesse waves the action figure thumphantly in the air
21. Thank you" Jesse exstamo as he sips the item in his backpack. Maybe this shop is a place of great discovenes and history, The thinks glanong back at the sombrero
Don't Go into the Library
The library is dangerous-Don't go in. If you do You know what will happen. It's like a pet store or a bakery-
5 Every single time you'll come out of there Holding something in your arms. Those novels with their big eyes. And those no-nonsense, all muscle Greyhounds and Dobermans,
10 All non-fiction and business, Cuddly when they're young But then when the first page is turned. The doughnut scent of it all, knowledge, The aroma of coffee being made
15 In all those books, something for everyone,
The deli offerings of civilization itself.
The library is the book of books,
Its concrete and wood and glass covers Keeping within them the very big,
20 Very long story of everything.
The library is dangerous, full Of answers. If you go inside, You may not come out
The same person who went in.
1 Which statement expresses a theme found in BOTH the story "The Antique Shop" and the poem "Don't Go Into the Library"? (1 point)
Making judgments based on appearances alone is foolish.
Answers to difficult questions are often found in unexpected places.
New perspectives and frames of mind can bring joy.
People can learn when they are willing to take necessary action.
#2 Read this sentence from paragraph 14 of the story "The Antique Shop."
"Customers are taking a piece of history with them, something that brings back a happy memory or sparks their imagination."
Which lines from the poem "Don't Go Into the Library" contain a SIMILAR idea?
Cuddly when they're young,/ But then the first page is turned. (lines 11-12)
You know what will happen./ It's like a pet story or a bakery--- (lines 3-4)
And those no-nonsense, all muscle/ Greyhounds and Dobermans, (lines 8-9)
You may not come out/ The same person who went in. (lines 23-24)
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