Read this excerpt from a literary analysis essay: Dickens's characterization of Pip in Great Expectations
shows the negative effects of pride and greed. Pip, after
living in the "big city" for some time, returns to his village to
visit his friend Biddy. At one point, she tells him that she
doubts he actually will return to visit them. Pip is upset:
"Don't say any more,
if
you please, Biddy. This shocks me
very much." Unfortunately, Pip cannot see the truth about
himself.
Is the underlined commentary in the excerpt effective?

disrespectable. hope that

the answer to the question is d. i took the test a second ago and got a 100 on it. hope this .

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serve the people! ,” smoothly translated by julia lovell, offers an initial sample of yan lianke’s writing to an english-speaking audience. a bluntly drawn, mildly erotic fable, it teases mao zedong by poking fun at a true believer who obeys the chairman’s precepts too literally. to a western sensibility, the broad strokes of yan lianke’s humor would seem to pose little risk of inciting rebellion, whether of the flesh or of the body politic. but then, part of the book’s attraction is that it doesn’t have a western sensibility. it lets the reader see — or rather, intuit — what jokes chinese officials don’t consider funny, and how very little it takes for a writer to be branded an incendiary in 21st-century china, more than three decades after the death of mao, a decade after the death of deng xiaoping and seven years since china entered the world trade organization, a move that would seem to signal a willingness (however wary) to mingle with the rest of the world.

the correct answer is d. sinking. - apex.