Read the excerpts from “To Live.”
I sit in my
crunched-in
restraining
desk, they call it.
with my paper
and my pen
***
and my mind on my
text and my pen on
the page
***
I see through the paper
and my pen writes
Why does the speaker most likely repeat the references to her pen and paper?
to emphasize how much she enjoys school and learning
to emphasize how much she struggles with writing
to show what is most important to her in life
to show the routine and distractions of her everyday life