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In "Interview with Simon Ortiz," Ortiz argues that, though he may write differently than authors and poets who came before him, he writes "about the same things that Robert Browning or Shelley or Shakespeare did."

Which evidence from the text supports this position?

"I will try to write everything down. I try to urge myself to sit down and write conversations and dialogues that I have with people. I try to remember what people said. I try to put them in a context later when I’m writing."

"My point in the book was to indeed have Indian people understood as people, like anybody else. We have daily struggles: we argue among ourselves; we get divorced; we need jobs; we try to go to school. We have happy times and sad times."

"In my next book, A Good Journey, which was reissued recently, I utilized the oral tradition. My first major books were more in keeping with what I knew from the Acoma tradition, living in this experience called America."

"I was concentrating on the immediate, yet referring to the Pueblo revolt of 1680; that struggle then is very similar to our struggle now. It is much more pointed politically because the 1970s and 1980s were very much a time of political struggle."

the illustration   that would give a reader a clear understanding of the text is a picture of men constructing the frame of a building.the frame is made of iron bars. the text describes the job of blacksmiths'. these were very organised and they had different names: "the driver" and "the heater". the text describes the way in which these men worked ; they worked iron pieces as if they were playing a sport. in fact, the text wants to show the men's skills. the text also puts some emphasis on the use of '' rivets'' in construction. this kind of nails were not always used in the construction of manhattan.

some examples:

"and with an underhand toss he hurled the smoking rivet straight at the catcher, who caught it in mid-air in his catching can." men's skills

"when the driver was ready for a new " the emphasis on the rivet ( special nail used in construction).

" it against a beam to remove any cinders, and jammed it into the waiting hole. " the emphasis on the rivet.

they used personification to make the truck seem mean and violent.

hope this !

basic principle: a pronoun usually refers to something earlier in the text (its antecedent) and must agree in number — singular/plural — with the thing to which it refers. the indefinite pronouns anyone, anybody, everyone, everybody, someone, somebody, no one, and nobody are always singular.