1a. New York
1b. Kansas is far away from NY It's in the middle of the USA
2a. The narrator is speaking. now He is an adult
The story takes place in the past In the story, he is a child.
2b. When he was a child, the narrator lived in Kansas. Kansas is in the middle of the United States, far away from New York. The narrator is an adult now, and he remembers a visit to New York, a long time ago. The story is written in the first person
3a. winter
3b. excited
4. sight : view (l.11), big, bright, admire (l.13), displays, saw (l.14)
hearing : noise (l.8), car horns (l.8), police sirens (l.9), blaring (l.9)
5a. surprised : I didn’t expect very much (l.17), But it was pure magic (l.18). That’s when I saw it (l.20).
5b. gigantic (l.20) and 70-foot tree (l.21)
The boy feels very small : he looks up (l.20)
5c. Blazing lights that made you dizzy.
6a. Tu dois les souligner dans le texte :
pure magic (l.18), dizzy (l.22), dream-like beauty (l.23), great (l.26), wonderful (l.27), nothing compares to (l.28)
6b. The verbe : stare The adjective : engulfed
6c. strong
