02.+Passages

media type="custom" key="4479326"media type="custom" key="4479262""He says, you have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind about history and everything else but you can’t make up an empty mind. Stock your mind, stock your mind. You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace." **Frank McCourt,  Angela's Ashes ,** **1996**

"When I was finished, I told William K that I was sorry. I was sorry that I had not known how sick he was. That I had not found a way to keep him alive. That I was the last person he saw on this earth. That he could not say good-bye to his mother and father, that only I would know where his body lay. It was a broken world, I knew then, that would allow a boy such as me to bury a boy such as William K." **Dave Eggers, //What is the What//, 2006**   "Imagine London. Imagine the capital of Great Britain; the Heart of the Empire; the largest and the greatest city in all the worlds of the Sun. Imagine the launching towers of the aether-ships, rising above the rooftops of Shoreditch and Wapping like a mighty forest, the masts of seabound shipping in the Thames another, and in the east the shaft of Mr Brunel's new space elevator, shining in the sunlight. Imagine the Houses of Parliament, the palaces and villas, the endless bustle in the teeming streets. And now imagine a boy growing up in the heart of such a city, but hidden away, locked up, knowing nothing of the world beyond the dark, echoey building in which he lived, nothing of the outside world at all except for the drear, high-walled garden where he was allowed to play sometimes." **Philip Reeve, //LarkLight,// 2006** Using the imagine sentences is a technique to introduce a topic. The best use is to fill each line with images and to make the statements positive; then, lead into the issue, which is typically is not as positive a situation. Notice the use of semicolons, and repetitive parallel structures, too.