Breaks from the blue-black skin of the water, dragging her shell

with its mossy scutes

across the shallows and through the rushes

and over the mudflats, to the uprise,

to the yellow sand,

to dig with her ungainly feet

a nest, and hunker there spewing

her white eggs down

into the darkness, and you think

of her patience, her fortitude,

her determination to complete

what she was born to do

and then you realize a greater thing

she doesn’t consider

what she was born to do.

She’s only filled

with an old blind wish.

It isn’t even hers but came to her

in the rain or the soft wind

which is a gate through which her life keeps walking.

She can’t see

herself apart from the rest of the world

or the world from what she must do

every spring.

Crawling up the high hill,

luminous under the sand that has packed against her skin,

she doesn’t dream

she knows

she is a part of the pond she lives in,

the tall trees are her children,

the birds that swim above her

are tied to her by an unbreakable string.

—“The Turtle,”
Mary Oliver

Break down the structure of the poem by completing each sentence.

The first stanza is mainly about
.

The second stanza is mainly about
.

The third stanza is mainly about
.

the answer is irony!

how much wood did the woodchuck chuck since a wood chuck can chuck wood.

xd

btw woodchucks cant chuck wood.

brainliest ?

lennie

is very stupid, big and strong and sweet, he loves soft things

george

is smart reosponible and watches over lennie

candy

candy is an old ranch worker who has lost one of his hands in a farm accident. he's spent the best years of his life working on someone else's ranch, only to lose his hand and have little money.

curly

is the ranch owners son he is said to have vasilene in one glove to keep that hand soft for his wife

crooks

crooks. crooks is a lively, sharp-witted, black stable-hand, who takes his name from his crooked back. like most of the characters in the story, he admits that he is extremely lonely. when lennie visits him in his room, his reaction reveals this fact.

curlys wife

is lonly and seems to flirt with most of the men on the farm she does not like her hunband much.

1. the human rights issue in the novel is equlity the men in the story are poor and curly is mean to all of them as if they are just dirt

2. the first issue comes up when lennie kills the mouse

3. when lennies love for soft things gets in the way and he kills curlys wife as shes running away.

4. the issue is resolved by the death of lennie.

5. lennie suffers because of his death he will never be able to tend the rabbits.

6. the wording in the qoutations imply what is happening in the story

7. when lennies love for soft things gets in the way and he kills curlys wife as shes running away.

8.   the issue is resolved by the death of lennie.