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3 Once a journey is designed, equipped, and put in process; a new factor enters and takes over. A trip, a safari, an exploration, is an entity, different from all other journeys. It has personality, temperament, individuality, uniqueness. A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us. Tour masters, schedules, reservations, brass-bound and inevitable, dash themselves to wreckage on the personality of the trip. Only when this is recognized can the blown-in-the-glass bum relax and go along with it. Only then do the frustrations fall away. In this a journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you can control it. I feel better now, having said this, although only those who have experienced it will understand it.
Second Reading: vocabulary in Context
After reading the passage to yourself, listen and follow along as the passage is read again aloud. Again, circle words that you don’t know or that you think are important to understanding the passage.
Check your Understanding
1. Pair with another student, share your circled words, and discuss the meanings
and effect of the words on your understanding of the entire passage.
Choose two of the words you have examined that you think are significant to understanding the passage. Use the words in a sentence or two that explains why these words contribute to your understanding.
2. What are the stages of the journey that Steinbeck outlines in paragraph 2? Summarize them and explain why you know these are stages in a process
Third Reading: Text-Dependent Questioning
Reread the passage a third time and respond to the questions on the next page.
entity: something that has a separate and distinct identity
inevitable: unavoidable
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