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paragraphs 1–3, Mandela talks about his three stages of thinking about freedom. What are they? Reread the first three paragraphs of the text. What stage of life does Mandela describe in each paragraph? What was his perspective in each? How, if at all, did his perspective change over time?
6. Craft and Structure (RI.7.4) What words in paragraph 3 help you determine the meaning of
the word curtailed? What clues in paragraph 3 can help us determine the meaning of curtailed? If people are not free, what has happened to their freedom?
7. Craft and Structure (RI.7.4) What figurative language does Mandela use in paragraph 4? Remember, a metaphor is an implied comparison. What things in the paragraph are compared? How is the desire for freedom like hunger? How is prejudice like being “locked behind” bars?
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a Long Walk to peace
my Notes
Second read
• Reread the autobiography to answer these text-dependent questions.
• Write any additional questions you have about the text in your Reader/Writer Notebook.
5. Key Ideas and Details: In paragraphs 1–3, Mandela talks about his three stages of thinking about freedom. What are they?
As a child, thinking and feeling himself fully free; as a young man, learning that his freedom had been taken from him; later, desiring not only his own freedom but also the freedom of his people.
6. Craft and Structure: What words in paragraph 3 help you determine the meaning of the word curtailed?
The words “not free” help show that if someone’s freedom is curtailed, then he or she is not free.
7. Craft and Structure: What figurative language does Mandela use in paragraph 4? “Hunger for freedom” is a metaphor that compares Mandela’s desire for freedom
to the universal human need for food. He uses another metaphor when he compares prejudice and narrow-mindedness to being “locked behind” bars.
8. Key Ideas and Details: Quote the part of this text in which Mandela describes what true freedom is. Demonstrate your understanding by explaining the quote in your own words.
“ . . . to be free is to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.” This means that true freedom comes from respecting other people’s freedoms and helping to ensure those freedoms.
9. Key Ideas and Details: Reread and compare the details in paragraph 4 of the Mandela biography and paragraph 5 of Mandela’s autobiography. How does each paragraph interpret his mission once out of prison?
Both paragraphs suggest that Mandela sought to reach his goals once released from prison. The paragraph in the autobiography makes it clearer what that goal was: “to liberate the oppressed and the oppressor both.”
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