The best times I spent in the forest meadows were with my grandmother. She was alone a lot, too. When we did have the chance to be together, we loved the same things—finding

tiny violets under the grass, for example. A warm wind on our faces, the sun warming our

hair. We would hold hands and enjoy being together. We talked about the people we knew

and how to get along with them. Every time I met her, she had a new piece of praise for me. And because I had the encouragement and love of my grandmother, even for the short

times that I was with her, I was able to believe in myself, and make something of my writing.

What makes this passage "reflective writing"?

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1. find at least 9 adjectives from this opening passage used to describe the setting of the story- "to build a fire" setting: day had broken cold and gray, exceedingly cold and gray, when the man turned aside from the main yukon trail and climbed the high earth-bank, where a dim and little-travelled trail led eastward through the fat spruce timberland. it was a steep bank, and he paused for breath at the top, excusing the act to himself by looking at his watch. it was nine o'clock. there was no sun nor hint of sun, through there was not a cloud in the sky. it was a clear day, and yet there seemed an intangible pall over the face of things, subtle gloom that made the day dark, and that was due to the absence of sun. this fact did not worry the man. he was used to the lack of sun. it had been days since he had seen the sun, and he knew that a few more days must pass before that cheerful orb, due south, would just peep above the sky-line and dip immediately from view.

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