According to the text, how does the first morning with the boy affect Bill?
A Bill is already exhausted by the boy's
near constant playing.
B Bill is traumatized by the boy
attempting to scalp him in his sleep.
C Bill is frightened by the thought of the
boy planning to set him on fire.
D Bill is annoyed but is largely
unaffected.

B Bill is traumatized by the boy  attempting to scalp him in his sleep.

Explanation:

In the short story, The Ransom of Red Chief, Bill Driscoll and the Narrator kidnapped a little boy who Bill called Red Chief as a joke because the boy was very spirited and had red hair. They wanted to make a quick ransom from the boy's father and use it in a real estate deal.

They did not know however, just how stubborn the boy was and the morning after they had kidnapped him, Bill was woken up by the boy sitting on his chest ready to scalp him because the boy thought they were playing a game of Indian. Bill was so traumatized that he never slept the entire time they were with the boy.

explanation:

which character trait does the characterization from the passage above reveal about the grandson? a.honest. b.patient. c.sneaky. d.cruel.

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assignment

analyzing characters

respond to the following questions in one paragraph for each. use specific examples from the text to support your responses.

1. there is a set of twins on the island named sam and eric. however, when describing them, golding regularly refers to them as samneric. how does this way of describing the twins relate to their behavior and the way that readers understand their characters? what examples of their behavior readers see that samneric is really the appropriate way to refer to them?

2. as the boys set out to search for the beast, ralph allows jack to lead the way, and he sinks to the back of the pack, " to have escaped responsibility for a time." what does this moment lead you to infer about ralph and about his feelings about being the group’s leader? what does this moment foreshadow?

3. while part of the party searching for the beast, simon realizes that the notion of the beast that the other boys have does not make sense. a beast sitting atop a mountain with claws, a beast who did not leave tracks, could have easily caught the twins. simon has a different picture of the beast: "there rose before his inward sight the picture of a human at once heroic and sick." how does this picture relate to the beast that samneric saw? how does it relate to what simon said earlier about the beast being "only us"?

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