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Dreamland Preface and Introduction 1

Write one paragraph for each response (total of three paragraphs). Number them accordingly. Compare and contrast the experience of generations of Portsmouth teens in the Preface with the experience of Matt Schoonover in the Introduction. How does Sam Quinones differentiate the two? Why and how does Quinones became interested in this story? What rhetorical techniques does Quinones use in this part of the book? These may include narration, description, process analysis, exemplification, comparison and contrast, classification and division, definition, cause and effect and other tools, such as allusions, personal testimony/anecdotes, statistics, appeal to logic (logos), appeal to emotion (pathos), appeal to character (ethos), appeal to need, appeal to values?