Read the excerpt from “broken chain.” he asked his mother if he could have braces, like frankie molina, her godson, but he asked at the wrong time. she was at the kitchen table licking the envelope to the house payment. she glared up at him. “do you think money grows on trees? ” his mother clipped coupons from magazines and newspapers, kept a vegetable garden in the summer, and shopped at penney’s and kmart. what is a theme expressed in this excerpt? mothers have better things to do than managing money. spending money is not always an option. many people enjoy the rewards of gardening. summer is a busy time of year for mothers and retailers.

Stone, two or three feet thick, the door of wood and iron, a foot thick, and the iron grating which strained the light, i could not being struck with the foolishness of that institution which treated me as if i were mere flesh and blood and bones, to be locked up. i wondered that it should have concluded at length that this was the best use it could put me to, and had never thought to avail itself of my services in some way. i saw that, if there was a wall of stone between me and my townsmen, there was a still more difficult one to climb or break through before they could get to be as free as i was. i did not for a moment feel confined, and the walls seemed a great waste of stone and mortar. i felt as if i alone of all my townsmen had paid my tax. — “civil disobedience,” henry david thoreau based on this passage, how did thoreau feel about his confinement?

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Constructed response paragraph: in the short story, the author describes her life during her “day away” but provides few details about her “normal” life. using information from the text, write a short story that describes events that precede the story above. as you detail the author’s daily routine before her “day away,” be sure your narrative establishes the story’s setting, first-person point of view, and primary conflict.