When you evaluate - you make a judgment about whether something works or does not work.
Answer:
According to Douglass, laws in the south prove that slaves are human beings in those laws passed in the south punish slaves as punish white men. Douglass used the reference of the laws passed in the southern state of Virginia.
Explanation:
<span>In those quotations from the story, author is using both direct and indirect
characterization. Direct characterization is when author directly states what characters are like and indirect characterization shows personality of a character
through speech, looks, actions, thought and effects on others. In the first quotation
author is using direct characterization through stating how character looks and states her actions –
Della is slender and she has mastered the arts. In second quotation author also uses direct characterization through looks and actions – Madam is large, too
white, chilly and she hardly looks at ‘Sofronie. In the third quotation, Madam’s
characterization is indirectly shown through her action and speech – she bidded
twenty dollars by lifting her hand. An in the fourth quotation indirect
characterization is shown through actions – he looked the watch on the sly.</span>
Tan builds a central idea of her story in the excerpt as:
Tan discusses her mother’s use of English to build the idea that a form of language can be purposeful and meaningful even if it is nonstandard.
Amy Tan's essay “Mother Tongue” is about the difficulties that a child has to face if it grows in a family in which its parents speak 'limited English.' Amy's mother was among such parent who was unable to speak fluent and proper English. It is through the language that the person is judged by others. Amy was brought up by her mother and because of this, her writing style was much influenced by the language spoken at her home. Her mother taught her that a person's perception of the world is influenced by the language spoken at home.
