Analyzing Characters and Plot Events
What does the narrator realize as a result of this
experience?
All of us, our family and the Chinese guests, stopped
eating to watch the activities of the Gleasons. I wanted to
giggle. Then I caught my mother's eyes on me. She
frowned and shook her head slightly, and I understood
the message: the Gleasons were not used to Chinese
ways, and they were just coping the best they could. For
some reason I thought of celery strings.
"The All-American Slurp,"
Lensey Namioka,
The Gleasons are trying to teach the Lins some
American customs.
O The Gleasons act rudely when asked to follow the
Lins' traditions.
O TNS Gleasons struggle with Chinese customs, as
the Lins had with American ones.

Describe the term romanticism. how is it evident in the poems of the era? be sure to include information related to poems from at least two authors. support your response with evidence related to form, sound, structure, and other poetic elements.

In this excerpt , mr.stonecrop is compared to a mountain. how does this description relates to mr.stoncrops roll in the main conflict of the story

At first i was afraid to approach him—then the fear left me. he was sitting looking out over the city—he was dressed in the clothes of the gods. his age was neither young nor old—i could not tell his age. but there was wisdom in his face and great sadness. you could see that he would have not run away. he had sat at his window, watching his city die—then he himself had died. but it is better to lose one's life than one's spirit—and you could see from the face that his spirit had not been lost. i knew, that, if i touched him, he would fall into dust—and yet, there was something unconquered in the face. how does the conflict at the beginning of the paragraph move the plot forward? the narrator realizes that he is scared of the gods. the narrator realizes that he distrusts the spirits the narrator realizes that the god was a man. the narrator realizes that he is powerful like the gods.