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The page numbers of my quotes may be wrong because I used a electronic book of Sag Harbor. Benji's dad is apparently pretty good at grilling so I wanted to make a barbecue recipe based on the Book. The first step is inspired by the quote, "He wheeled the Weber to the side of the deck and dumped last week's ashes over the rail" (Whitehead 177). This quote shows that Benji's father used a Weber that was used at least once because he dumped ashes from another time. I think a Weber is a grill brand. Here is the first image of a grill that popped up from a google search of Weber. Step 1. Use a Weber that has been used at least once. The next step is inspired by the quote, "Next came the ceremonial scrubbing away of last week's grease from the grill." (Whitehead 177). This quote also shows that the Weber was used at least once because there was grease from a week before and that Benji's father likes scrub away grease from the grill before cooking. Step...

The page numbers of my quotes may be off because I used a Portable Document Format of Black Swan Green.       According to Merriam Webster, revenge is "an act or instance of retaliating in order to get even" ("revenge"). In Black Swan Green, Julia Taylor defines a Pyrrhic victory as “one where you win, but the cost of winning is so high that it would’ve been better if you’d never bothered with the war in the first place” (Mitchell 116).        When the mom and dad are arguing about buying a rockery, the mom asks the question, "So it’s all right for you to spend six hundred pounds on a golf-club membership you hardly ever use, but it isn’t all right for me to improve our property?” (Mitchell 101). This response classifies as revenge because the mom is retaliating against the dad by rebutting that the dad spends six hundred pounds on a golf-club membership when the dad questions the cost of Italian marble in the rockery. The mom is also trying ...