Rukmani's life is filled with struggle, yet she remains resolutely optimistic about her future. Married off to a poor rice farmer at the age of 12, Rukmani struggles through loneliness, infertility, starvation, and great loss with persevering optimism. The novel's title, Nectar in a Sieve, refers to nectar, a sweet liquid, and a sieve, a device with meshes that allows liquid to pass through while trapping solids in the device. The title suggests Rukmani's ability to appreciate the short, sweet moments in life before they disappear. During the Deepavali celebration in Chapter 10, for example, Rukmani's family struggles to eat, yet she doles out precious pennies for the children to buy fireworks because "it is only once ... a memory." Similarly, at the end of the novel when she and Nathan have been saving to return to the village, she feels overcome with happiness while at the market with Puli. She buys fried pancakes instead of plain rice cakes and wooden toys for the children: "Well, if we are extravagant it is only once." No matter what suffering comes Rukmani's way, she maintains optimism that life can only get better. She tells Kenny, "Want is our companion from birth to death." Rather than wallow in what's lacking, Rukmani always chooses to look ahead: to the next meal, the next year, or the next harvest.
his hand dangling from the cookie jar - absolute phrase
This phrase describe the entire clause "Charles looked guilty", so it is considered and absolute phrase. An absolute phrase also had a noun and participle; the noun is hand, the participle is dangling.
the team's captain - appositive phrase, adjective phrase
This phrase clarifies that the quarterback is the team captain. An appositive phrase functions as an adjective phrase because it describes a specific noun.
Her confidence shaken - absolute phrase
This phrase contains a noun (confidence) and participle (shaken). It also describes the entire clause "Sheryl spelled the word again". These are the conditions for an absolute phrase.
the editor of the school paper - appositive phrase, adjective phrase
This phrase clarifies or renames Charlotte as the editor of the school paper.
The correct answer is this one: "1)They are lovers who are meeting in secret." The excerpt from the poem "The Solitary Reaper" by William Wordsworth, can be determined about the speaker and the singing solitary reaper is that t<span>hey are lovers who are meeting in secret because of some circumstance.</span>
The correct answer is I, II, and III.
The first sentence support the thesis statement by using a metaphor: it compares a settler cleaning weeds from a corn field with men killing all types of life to comfortably settle in a land.
The second sentence expresses how men have devoted years and centuries developing and improving different types of weapons that would make them better killers.
And the third sentence shows that man has taken his desire for killing so far that he even wants to kill the microorganisms that live in their homes.
