Read the excerpt from "marriage is a private affair" by chinua achebe. nnaemeka, for his own part, was very deeply affected by his father’s grief. but he kept hoping that it would pass away. if it had occurred to him that never in the history of his people had a man married a woman who spoke a different tongue, he might have been less optimistic. "it has never been heard,” was the verdict of an old man speaking a few weeks later. in that short sentence he spoke for all of his people. this man had come with others to commiserate with okeke when news went round about his son’s behaviour. by that time the son had gone back to lagos."it has never been heard,” said the old man again with a sad shake of his head."what did our lord say? ” asked another gentleman. "sons shall rise against their fathers; it is there in the holy book.”"it is the beginning of the end,” said another. what cultural value does this excerpt of the text reveal? the rejection of religious teachingsthe mandate to marry within one's tribennaemeka's eagerness to return to the cityokeke's pride in being a patriarch
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"edna, dear, are you not coming in soon? " he asked again, this time fondly, with a note of entreaty. "no, i am going to stay out here." "this is more than folly," he blurted out. "i can't permit you to stay out there all night. you must come in the house instantly." which best explains how chopin's use of language represents her style?
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English, 22.06.2019 02:00
How does frost use ambiguity to present his message about walls and neighbours what evidence supports the idea that the speaker believes good fences make good neighbors what details suggest the opposite
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English, 22.06.2019 15:00
What is the setting of this passage by jack london? the call of the wild buck lived at a big house in the sun-kissed santa clara valley. judge miller’s place, it was called. it stood back from the road, half hidden among the trees. glimpses could be caught through the trees of the wide, cool veranda that ran around all four sides of the house. the house was approached by gravel driveways, which wound through wide lawns and under the connecting boughs of tall poplar trees.
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