Is the following example correct in relation MLA citation rules?
I am not sure if one citation in parentheses end of the sentence will suffice, but it would look weird to have (112) after each one- or three-word quote. Rule: use very short quotations—only a few words—as part of your own sentence Here’s the example: Ralph reminisces about how everything in his life used to be “good-humored and friendly”; how his nightly “bowl of cornflakes with sugar and cream” and the weight of The Mammoth Book for Boys in his hands were comforting, reliable, and could be counted on; and how avoiding the unpleasant things in life like page twenty-seven of the book “about the magician . . . with the awful picture of the spider” was now no longer simply a matter of choice (112). Here’s the example: Ralph reminisces about how everything in his life used to be “good-humored and friendly”; how his nightly “bowl of cornflakes with sugar and cream” and the weight of The Mammoth Book for Boys in his hands were comforting, reliable, and could be counted on; and how avoiding
