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Gray green 19 Posted 8 years ago
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May you explain what the author wanted to mean by this sentence?” Her life now had a needle hovering over it,ready to tack it into place.” The last runaway-Tracy Chevalier. Thank you so much!
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” Her life, which had been so uncertain these last few months, now had a needle hovering over it, ready to tack it into place. She did not feel secured, though, "tack" is a dressmaking term - it means to sew separate pieces of fabric loosely together to keep them in the correct place before you stitch them permanently. I suppose in this context she felt that her life was in pieces, and she felt as though the means to put it back together temporarily, preparing to make it whole.
- ” Her life, which had been so uncertain these last few months, now had a needle hovering over it, ready to tack it into place.
- She did not feel secured, though, "tack" is a dressmaking term - it means to sew separate pieces of fabric loosely together to keep them in the correct place before you stitch them permanently.
- I suppose in this context she felt that her life was in pieces, and she felt as though the means to put it back together temporarily, preparing to make it whole.
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gray green 19Will you explain what the authorwanted tomeant by this sentence?”
Her life, which had been so uncertain these last few months, now had a needle hovering over it, ready to tack it into place. She did not feel secured, though,
"tack" is a dressmaking term - it means to sew separat
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