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The student answer and Jiang's reply together frame moral growth as forgiving yourself and letting go of the past.
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Odysseus builds persuasive force by moving Achilles through vivid contrasts and time: feast versus desert, present Hector, past Peleus, and future victory, riches, marriage, and Greek glory.
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Jiang says a coherent character-world lets readers look backward to understand how events came into being and look forward to make predictions about future behavior.
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"Yes? You have to forgive yourself. Forgive yourself to be a better person."
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"Okay. Yes. Okay. Let go of the past. Forgive yourself. Good. What else?"
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"...before him. Okay? And then he takes Achilles back to the past and says, remember your father, Peleus."
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"...Think about the present. Think about the present. Think about the past. Think about the future. Okay? Expand your mind, Achilles. Right? That's what..."
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"...able to look back at how this came into being, the past, and we're also able to make predictions about the future. And all..."
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"...as long as someone really loves you, or you in the past did someone a good favor, you would still be granted access to..."
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"Line 37. We climbed already past that point. Behind us we heard beati misericordes, sung and then rejoiced, you who have overcome. I and..."
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"...as though that he came in with already memories of a past life and possibly many many past lives i'm not sure if you..."
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"...everything we write in fiction is a real person in the past so then we actually lost our imagination because we don't create anything..."
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"...time in space yeah oh okay right this is all the past it's also the future oh i see i see okay okay because..."
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"...your death and tell me if i go straight to the past Your words will be our escort caught of our time after i..."
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"...he to me, what reason can see here I can impart. Past that, for truth of faith, it's Beatrice alone you must await. Every..."
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