Color plays an important symbolic function in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. One of the most important colors is, of course, the color green. There is the green knight and the green girdle. Both the knight and the girdle have magical powers: one to threaten to take life, and the other to protect life. Discuss the use of the color green in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight while describing how this color functions symbolically to reinforce the value of life.

If a text made the claim that act iv was the most important act in the entire play, what evidence could you find to prove the accuracy of that claim? list one piece of evidence from the text to support that claim.

(1) fire extended humans’ geographical boundaries by allowing them to travel into regions that were previously too cold to explore. (2) it also kept predators away, allowing early humans to sleep securely. (3) fire, in fact, has been a significant factor in human development and progress in many ways. (4) other obvious benefits of fire are its uses in cooking and in hunting. (5) probably even more important, however, is that learning to control fire allowed people to change the very rhythm of their lives. (6) before fire, the human daily cycle coincided with the rising and setting of the sun. (7) with fire, though, humans gained time to think and talk about the day’s events and to prepare strategies for coping with tomorrow. the sentence that expresses the main idea is: (type the number of the sentence. then click “go.”)

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