<p>I said a favor</p>
<p>I said business transaction cause she was using words like payment and fee</p>
<p>Yeah, but like…with the cookies and stuff. It kinda made the author portray it as a business transaction?</p>
<p>Transaction cuz what she did she would get something in return</p>
<p>Crap I put business transaction. It sounded unnecessarily formal the way she worded it with the cookies/milk payment.</p>
<p>It was a business transaction. Especially since she was receiving cookies for her work. And the first sentence made it sound like a transaction.</p>
<p>businness 10char</p>
<p>it was business transaction… that’s why she spoke so formally and used phrases like, “I was commissioned” and “my fee was…”</p>
<p>I also agree with yvettec that it was basic misunderstanding, the grandma was always writing about the wrong things in her letters, and the granddaughter tried to correct her by writing about details of her family. Also, the purpose of the ending was to show that the grandmother still kind of ended the letter with a command rather than a proper closing, thus misunderstanding the purpose of writing letters</p>
<p>Was the question</p>
<p>“I remember my walk to the house” in the bicycle or the cartographer writing section?</p>
<p>Yeah another one for basic misunderstandings! Development of a writer idk; i just didn’t get that vibe.</p>
<p>Talk about writing questions for the thread made specifically for the writing section.</p>
<p>The problem is that the grandmother wasn’t writing about the wrong things. She just wasn’t writing enough. She wasn’t implying that the grandmother was writing it to get her sister to love her. It just turned out that way.</p>
<p>I was leaning towards development as a writer, but nothing in the passage alluded to the fact that she was an aspiring writer. I mean, yeah, she was writing a memoir, but even the blurb at the top said that the passage was about the author’s relationship with her grandmother or w/e, not about her early experience in writing</p>
<p>Sorry what was the question for the one with the basic misunderstanding?</p>
<p>for the tribulations, the last sentence showed that the tribulation was not as great as she was told, or that tribulation was not palatial as she imagines it to be? i put latter :X</p>
<p>right kebalkan, i’m not saying the ending was the only indication for the answer “basic misunderstanding,” but it encompassed the passage’s idea as a whole, that even when the narrator taught the grandmother how to write, the grandmother still wrote the wrong thing, intentionally or not. But whatever, there’s no point in arguing about questions that neither of us is completely sure about</p>
<p>Hey guys how bout the question in the last reading section (9 for me), the second to last sentence completion. Was it piecemeal, meteoric, or holistic?</p>
<p>it was a business transaction
bc it said the first writing she was ever “commissioned” to do</p>
<p>Krazy, right, the answer with the one with palatial</p>
<p>@gildedmushroom - but I assumed that it was appropriate because the whole passage was about how she was writing. the one paragraph about her bragging about the things she made up really gave it away. she started off copying down what her grandmother said, took control, and started to write really imaginative things. and she ended up enjoying it. But I can definitely see how it would be misunderstanding. I think it was just a tricky one and we’re all just overthinking it. </p>
<p>@krazy - palatial</p>