Excerpt from: Life on the Mississippi
Mark Twain
THERE was no use in arguing with a person like this. I promptly put such a strain on my memory that by and by even the shoal water and the countless crossing-marks began to stay with me. But the result was just the same. I never could more than get one knotty thing learned before another presented itself. Now I had often seen pilots gazing at the water and pretending to read it as if it were a book; but it was a book that told me nothing. A time came at last, however, when Mr. Bixby seemed to think me far enough advanced to bear a lesson on water-reading. So he began—
What conclusion can you make from the first paragraph?
A) Mr. Bixby dislikes the narrator.
B) The narrator is angry with Mr. Bixby.
C) The narrator thinks Mr. Bixby is stubborn.
D) Mr. Bixby thinks the narrator is stubborn.
C) The narrator thinks Mr. Bixby is stubborn.
Answer:
Both texts show people who are unhappy with their situations and willing to face adversity.
Explanation:
The three texts show people marginalized by society, because of their lives and due to society's prejudiced judgment. However, in all texts marginalized people are not willing to bow their heads and accept the unfair treatment that the system and society imposes.
These people are willing to face the adversities of the situation they are in. Even with the fear of failure, they are willing to fight and improve their quality of life, regardless of what society thinks of them, because they know that these things are not true.
Answer:
A) From a Jewish survivor's perspective.
Explanation:
In <em>All Rivers Run to the Sea</em>, Elie Wiesel tells us about his own experience under Nazis oppression and gruesome treatment of the Jews. He is a Jew, a writer and a survivor of the Holocaust, so in his work, we can <em>experience </em>the very essence of what was going there. Though his works made him famous, he said that those honors are a burden because he would rather like that his sister Tsiporah stayed alive, that Holocaust did not happen and book left unwritten.
Artie Spiegelman used his father Vladek`s vivid memories for writing <em>Maus. </em>He made hours and hours of interviews which included prewar, war and after war period. Vladek with his first wife Anja were first sent into segregated neighborhoods (ghettos) and then going through several Nazi camps. They tried to escape several times, but always unsuccessfully. In that time they had a young son Richie who they sent to a different ghetto to be with his aunt, but after she found out about sending them to the camp, she pois oned her children, Richie and herself. After the war, Anja was deeply disturbed and she committed sui cide. Vladek continued his life, but haunted by terrible past.
Answer:
C: Nelda goes to the river, enjoys some quiet reflection, and then returns home.
Explanation:
"Nelda's Adieu" is a short piece of text about a young girl named Nelda who is about to leave her home town and home state because of her parent's employment relocation.
She goes to the river bank which runs through her hometown. She has very good memories of this place. She recalls her grandmother, picnics there, swimming challenges with her friend Tracy, thinks about what her future in new state has in store for her, and then returns home.
It “swung people to the idea of drinking recycled water”...
