Before Reading Superman and Me
LITERARY ANALYSIS: Analyze Text Structure:
Cause and Effect
Authors use cause and effect to explain how one event (the cause) leads to
another event (the effect).
A. Read the passage below. In the Cause-and-Effect Chart, list examples of
cause and effect relationships in the text.
Look Into the Text
In a fit of unemployment-inspired creative energy, my father
built a set of bookshelves and soon filled them with a random
assortment of books about the Kennedy assassination, Watergate,
the Vietnam War, and the entire twenty-three-book series of the
Apache westerns. My father loved books, and since I loved my
father with an aching devotion, I decided to love books as well.
Cause-and-Effect Chart
Cause
My father was unemployed.
B. Complete the sentences.
The narrator developed a love for books because
He built a set of bookshelves.
The narrator's father built a set of bookshelves because
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