Read this excerpt from A Night to Remember. Arthur Ryerson had to lay down the law to Mrs. Ryerson: "You must obey orders. When they say ‘Women and children to the boats,’ you must go when your turn comes. I’ll stay here with Jack Thayer. We’ll be all right." Alexander T. Compton, Jr., was just as firm when his mother announced she would stay rather than leave him behind: "Don’t be foolish, Mother. You and Sister go in the boat—I’ll look out for myself." What do the actions and dialogue of the characters in this excerpt reveal about the roles of men and women during this time period? They were well-defined but not easily followed. They were old-fashioned for the time period. They were constantly changing. They were usually forgotten.

brutus overlooks that the majority of the crowd served julius caesar the military general. he appeals to their citizenship as romans by calling them first by that name in his salutation: "romans, countrymen, lovers." mark antony, however, speaks in terms understood by the military, by calling them first by, "friends, romans, countrymen." he recalls not only caesar the general but caesar the friend, whose body they see covered with stab wounds.

a biography is a genre that mainly accounts somebody's life and that is written by somebody else. this genre supports sonia nazario's desire to share enrique's life because she can fully inform readers of his entire emotional journey.

in a biography, an author can share the readers almost everything about a person's life, or just one key event or personal aspect the author is interested in telling, like in this specific case in which sonia nazario is centered in enrique's emotional journey.