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How does the narrator describe trying to figure out the letters?

Like he's trying to jump without legs 

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When he can't understand the letters, how does he feel? 

frustrated and like his dreams are slipping away 

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who does the narrator set out to find? 

the newspaper man 

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how does he describe the newspaper man? 

a brown face of hope 

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he comapres knowing the alphabet to what? 

like when he was baptized in the creek 

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What does the newspaper man draw on the ground for him? 

His name 

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what is the narrator's name? 

Booker 

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what does he know he can hold onto forever? 

The picture of his name