April 22 Passages Analysis

The ability to recall the parts of a story and determine the main idea of a reading passage is the basis for skills such as inferencing, sequencing, and overall comprehension of what has been read. Based on this knowledge, this author would address Jose’s ability to recall main story elements and therefore understand the main idea of the reading passage first.

In the first chapter of this novel, we get introduced to the protagonist and narrator of the novel, Holden Caufield, from a rest home in which he has been sent for therapy. He refuses to talk about his early life, although he does explain that his older brother “D.B” sold out to writing for Hollywood. His story and breakdown begins in the school of Pencey Prep, a boarding school set in Pennsylvania. The setting for the early chapters in the narration is his "terrible" school, to which he describes the atmosphere to be “as cold as the December air on Thomsen Hill”. Holden’s student career at Pencey Prep has been destroyed by his refusal to apply himself. We know this after Holden explains he failed four of his five subjects, passing only English. Due to his lack of effort and determination, he was forbidden to return to the school after the term. The Saturday before Christmas vacation began, Holden overlooked the football field, where Pencey usually

The poem Tuesday 9:00 AM by Denver Butson is a beautiful piece of writing that uses metaphors to describe the baggage everyone carries throughout life. The setting is extremely plain and ordinary, a bus stop on a Tuesday morning, but the word choice is very dramatic. The narrator tells the story from an omniscient point of view, while describing the various people and their personal afflictions who wait at the bus stop. However, the only descriptions are metaphors, that explain the emotional state each character is in. The poem itself is a short free verse with four stanzas and only one use of punctuation. Due to this lack of punctuation a stream of consciousness effect is created for the reader. Overall, the tone of the poem is morbid

The most obvious difference is the fact that one shows the perspective of a woman while the other tells a story from a man's perspective. The letter is written by a guy in the army to his wife and kids. He talks more about how he loves the Country so much that he is willing to die for it. The major does not really mind the fact that he is about to die and leave his family behind. Instead he tells his wife and kids to stay strong and that he will always be there for them. In contrast, the poem talks about how the women values her husband’s love and how he is such an idol. She would put her husband before anything and anyone. Just by reading the poem people are able to tell how much this women respects and loves her husband.Although they both love their families, one is willing to give up his life and abandon them.

Imagine a place where the verdict of a rape trial stems from racial prejudice rather than the proper evaluation of proven evidence. This is Maycomb, Alabama, the strange, Southern town where Scout and Jem Finch grow up during the 1930s in the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee. In short, the novel travels a thin line between a light-hearted narrative of the siblings’ childhood with their single father, a defense attorney named Atticus Finch, and the injustices that arise within their close-knit community. The complexities include extreme racism, a peculiar social hierarchy, and general misunderstandings of certain people within the small town. These are all seen as “Maycomb ways”, almost as if they are considered facts. Through her writing, Lee conveys an important message that an essential part of a child’s education often takes place in a home or community rather than a classroom by utilizing the characters, Atticus Finch and Tom Robinson, a black man accused of rape whom Atticus is defending.

I had my doubts about Paine's work at first, believing he was going to be highly disagreeable after reading that he believed in a single God, yet denounced the three major religions monotheistic religions, but I found myself agreeing with many of his points. While I do think he undermines the importance of faith when regarding any religion, I find that his position on “Revelations” is undoubtedly correct. Many of my concerns about the religious organizations of the world were voiced well within his worldview, despite being a bit more overbloated. I do believe at times that what we perceive as the truth now has been distorted in a way throughout tides of history, as well as the individuality and personability of revelation, but I find that his

In Scene 4 there was a significant shift in the tempo this then affected the mood and atmosphere. This change complement Bec’s worry and desire to earn the free chocolates by explaining her worries to the Researcher. As Bec hurries onto the stage entering from the right the Researcher is standing centre-stage with a stand which is a prop to her side. Bec walks quickly pass the Research and during this does not make direct eye contact, this shows that she is ashamed with herself. The Researcher has a very desperate tone to her voice confirming with a later statement that she does not have many volunteers. During the scene the Researchers movements are very distance as she moves away from Bec when she explains her life. During the scene Bec’s

The differences between the letter and the poem are first that the letter is way more accurate than the poem.The reason they are mainly different is that the letter is much more accurate than the poem the first example is that the letter was written by Paul Revere.The second reason is that the poem depicts the somerset as a phantom ship and and menacing.This is surprising because in the letter of Paul revere he did not mention the somerset.The writer of the poem most likely added this to make the story more appealing to audiences. He also put that the somerset was menacing and that it was described as a phantom ship this shows that he was writing something that not boring to an audience.The third reason that i know that the poem writes is not

I chose this particular passage because Crake’s comment about female artists angered me, and I wanted to look further into the rest of the passage. Jimmy’s frustrations with Crake mirror my own when trying to explain the importance of art to strictly science focused people. Crake’s mockery of Jimmy and disinterest truly made me angry in this passage, and I felt a connection to Jimmy desperately trying to defend something important to him. The discussion Jimmy has with Crake in this passage begins when Crake mentions that torment over relationships is needless suffering, and in his vision, humans would be better off being mated for life or completely promiscuous. Jimmy argues that Crake’s idea would take the choice and courtship out of relationships.

The passage I picked was in the second book in chapter four. I found this passage important because it develops the curate and the conflict of theme. First it starts on the sixth day of the narrator and the curates imprisonment together, the narrator soon notices that the curates behavior is uncalled for. Next the curate became eager to leave the abandoned, so the narrator tries to convince about being rational and to stay, but fails. On the eighth day the curate goes insane and starts to talks loudly about how hungry and how unworthy he was. Then the curate became completely psychotic and strides to the door. Eventually, the narrator picks up a meat chopper and knocks out the curate. Subsequently, the Martian lurks through house and hauls

In the opening of the passage book The Tribe. It begins when Bani remain unseen from his uncle Osama, while his mother trying to confuse his uncle that there are no men in the house. The narrator use simile to describe his uncle voice “he screams like a goat gasping for air” (Ahmad, 2014), in which he refers how fast he is speaking. Clearly the narrator contradicts from subject matter to him talking about the house of Adam and characterizing his Tayta, as well as comparing his own hand to his father and his uncle Ibrahim.

Therefore in the beginning of the novel To kill a mockingbird Scout seems to begin at stage 2, where they only do things that benefit themselves. Since in chapter 3, Scout didn’t want to attend school because that meant she and Atticus wouldn’t be able to read together anymore, “But if I keep on goin’ to school, we can’t ever read anymore…”(Lee 31). Scout didn’t want to go to school because she felt that it wasn’t fair that she would have to stop reading just to keep attending school. Though Atticus made a compromise with her, “If you’ll concede the necessity of going to school, we’ll go on reading every night just as we always have”(Lee 31). Scout saw how it benefitted her so she accepted it. This shows that Scout was at stage 2 because she

This passage is a sinister cocktail of atmospheric parallels and contrasts from the first passage that I chose. There is a definite chill and shift in the air from this moment in the story and when the book first opened, for the dynamic changes in various characters are evident and revelations of their intents and leary glimpses into the terrors of their inner workings come to the forefront. Their conviction brews with gruesome yet mellow determination as a cosmic dissonance as evil is beating out the moral responsibility to cling to good. The darkness and mystery that quietly loomed in the first passage now makes itself known with venomous percuss, fueling the buildup to the horrific goal of the

Verse 11 talks about to put on the armor of God. This armor is not literal armor that an individual can put on since characterizes such as truth and righteousness are not clothing items. Instead, the word armor should be taken as referring to figurative articles of protection that an individual should take upon themselves. The verse begins with the command to “put on”. It is not phrased in a question but is a commandment for those who follow Christ. Thus, we are to put on all the armor not just the parts that we see fit to as indicated by the word “whole”. After all it is dangerous to only put a helmet but to go into battle without a shield.

In 1476 it went inside the bedroom with a decree that condemned “the immoderate and excessive expenses that are made in this city in the ornament of ladies and the decoration of beds and chambers to the great offense of our lord god and the universal damage of our gentlemen and citizens, that as a thing alien to every laudable and honourable custom and example, can no longer be tolerated in any way”. The cost of decorating the bedchamber itself with wood, gilding, and paint was not to exceed 150 ducats.