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Canty's 'Place To Be At Sixteen'
Canty does achieve his purpose, he goes into detail about how things are ran and how much people take pleasure in the things there. “The best place to be at sixteen”, showing his purpose is achieved because in the beginning of the passage it says teenagers come because their parents force them. “If this were an efficient cakewalk, it would be no fun at all”. This quote shows that the fair is a unified and exhilarating event because it's implying that if everything did proceed as planned, it wouldn't be exciting and because it doesn't that brings them all together.
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