Chapter 2 of Fire!! is here in full — 417 sentences across 84 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
A keeper or guardian of historical records and memories.
Chapter II
Chapter 2 of Fire!! is here in full — 417 sentences across 84 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
EMMA (_slowly_). Ah, never wuz married, John. JOHN. It’s alright, Emma. (_Kisses her warmly._) Everything is going to be O.K.
Chapter 2 of Fire!! is here in full — 417 sentences across 84 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/83 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5
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without doubt (used to reinforce an assertion)
From this reading “It’s alright, Emma.”
all things; all of a situation
From this reading “(_Kisses her warmly._) Everything is going to be O.K.”
the act of departing
From this reading “(_Kisses her warmly._) Everything is going to be O.K.”
a room or building equipped with one or more toilets
From this reading “Ah, never wuz married, John.”
plural of “kiss” — the act of caressing with the lips (or an instance thereof)
joined in matrimony
From this reading “Ah, never wuz married, John.”
without speed (“slow” is sometimes used informally for “slowly”)
in a hearty manner
From this reading “(_Kisses her warmly._) Everything is going to be O.K.”
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From this reading Ah, never wuz married, John.
without doubt (used to reinforce an assertion)
From this reading It’s alright, Emma.
used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses
From this reading (_Kisses her warmly._) Everything is going to be O.K.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading EMMA (_slowly_).
all things; all of a situation
From this reading (_Kisses her warmly._) Everything is going to be O.K.
the act of departing
From this reading (_Kisses her warmly._) Everything is going to be O.K.
belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned
From this reading (_Kisses her warmly._) Everything is going to be O.K.
the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading (_Kisses her warmly._) Everything is going to be O.K.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading It’s alright, Emma.
a room or building equipped with one or more toilets
From this reading Ah, never wuz married, John.
the basic unit of thermodynamic temperature adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites
From this reading (_Kisses her warmly._) Everything is going to be O.K.
plural of “kiss” — the act of caressing with the lips (or an instance thereof)
From this reading (_Kisses her warmly._) Everything is going to be O.K.
joined in matrimony
From this reading Ah, never wuz married, John.
not ever; at no time in the past or future
From this reading Ah, never wuz married, John.
a nonmetallic bivalent element that is normally a colorless odorless tasteless nonflammable diatomic gas; constitutes 21 percent of the atmosphere by volume; the most abundant element in the earth's crust
From this reading (_Kisses her warmly._) Everything is going to be O.K.
without speed (“slow” is sometimes used informally for “slowly”)
From this reading EMMA (_slowly_).
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading (_Kisses her warmly._) Everything is going to be O.K.
in a hearty manner
From this reading (_Kisses her warmly._) Everything is going to be O.K.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Ah, never wuz married, John.
Chapter 2 of Fire!! by Wallace [Editor] Thurman holds 417 sentences, grouped into 84 reading sections of at most 5 sentences. The text is the source edition, unabridged, and the chapter records which sentences cover which part of the work so that nothing is dropped. Every word can be tapped for its pronunciation and dictionary entry.
Chapter 2 holds 417 sentences of Fire!!, unabridged, divided into 84 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 2 of Fire!! by Wallace [Editor] Thurman exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 417 sentences, grouped into 84 sections of at most 5 sentences so that a reader can take the chapter in steady, finishable pieces. The chapter also stores a coverage record mapping every one of its sentences to a part of the work, which is how the edition demonstrates that no line was dropped.
Work through the 84 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
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About 139 minutes of reading across 336 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
How to work through Fire!! section by section, using the audio and the tap-to-define vocabulary.
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Words and structures a reader meets early in Fire!!, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
