English questions| and you read this excerpt from "goodbye to all that" by joan didion. part of what i want to tell you is what it is like to be young in new york, how six months can become eight years with the deceptive ease of a film dissolve, for that is how those years appear to me now, in a long sequence of sentimental dissolves and old-fashioned trick shots—the seagram building fountains dissolve into snowflakes, i enter a revolving door at twenty and come out a good deal older, and on a different street. how does joan didion's extended metaphor of comparing her time in new york to a movie affect the meaning of this excerpt? 1| it subtly suggests that didion's experiences in new york have been fictionalized, which calls the truthfulness of her account into question. 2| it highlights didion's belief that all people who live in new york feel as though they are the stars of an epic film about their

In the metaphor used by Joan Didion extended she refers to her time in New York as a movie, she always love that city, however, now she think that the city is just for young people and the city makes them feel as the starts in their own movie, but with past of the time it would become a “a film dissolve”, the answer is 2| It highlights Didion's belief that all people who live in New York feel as though they are the stars of an epic film about their.

this passage has a lot of figurative language like examples are

the day we found the sharks' teeth was foggy and cool.

moisture hung in the air so thick you could almost see it sparkling in the dim sunlight.

figurative language can not be taken seriously it is just sayings.

- "there are several movements that doris lessing was associated with. first of all, communism. she pursued her communist beliefs and included them in her writing, and was also a member of several communist book clubs. she is also strongly associated with feminism, her fight for equality and women's rights.

doris lessing is the kind of writer who has followers, not just readers. they have been engaged to her chiefly because of her involvement in major problems, such as politics and woman-ism."