In "Sixteen" by Maureen Daly, the narrator expresses how she is an intuitive teenage girl; she knows the trends, and she is up-to-date with the world. She also immediately insists that "I’m not so really dumb. I know what a girl should do and what she shouldn’t". Not only does she describe what she should and shouldn't wear, when she arrives at the skating rink she describes the sky and her surroundings, implying that she is highly detail oriented.
After she states twice that she was not a "dumb" girl, and giving reasons why she wasn't, we realize she was trying to reassure herself of the fact. All logic is out the window once she mets with her love interest, and she feels dumb for believing that he would call her; "for all of a sudden I know, what the stars knew all the time ---- he’ll never, never call --- never".
Explain how the reactions of “the bloodless ghouls” to Orpheus’s song in paragraph 3 are important to the overall theme of the story. Cite evidence from the story in your response.
Answer: C. Brutus must decide whether to help in the plot to kill Caesar.
In this excerpt, Brutus is deciding whether to help in the plot to kill Caesar. On the one hand, Brutus argues that he likes Caesar, and that he believes him to be competent and responsible. He has never seen him be unreasonable. On the other hand, Caesar wants more power, and this power could corrupt him and turn him into a tyrant. He concludes that it is better to get rid of Caesar before he gets more power and begins to cause harm to Rome.
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