Which excerpt from "everyday use" by alice walker employs the technique of ambiguity?
a) in both of [the quilts] were scraps of dresses grandma dee had worn fifty and more years ago. bits and pieces of grandpa jarrell's paisley shirts. and one teeny faded blue piece, about the size of a penny matchbox, that was from great grandpa ezra's uniform that he wore in the civil war.

b) and then she turned to maggie, kissed her, and said, “you ought to try to make something of yourself, too, maggie. it's really a new day for us. but from the way you and mama still live you'd never know it."

c) you've no doubt seen those tv shows where the child who has 'made it' is confronted, as a surprise, by her own mother and father, tottering in weakly from backstage. (a pleasant surprise, of course: what would they do if parent and child came on stage only to curse out and insult each other? )

d) dee wanted nice things. a yellow organdy dress to wear to her graduation from high school; black pumps to match a green suit she'd made from an old suit somebody gave me. she was determined to stare down any disaster in her efforts. nextreset

The answer is B. " And then she turned to Maggie, kissed her, and said, " You ought to try to make something of yourself, too, Maggie. It's really a new day for us. But from the way you and Mama still live you'd never know it."

B) And then she turned to Maggie, kissed her, and said, “You ought to try to make something of yourself, too, Maggie. It's really a new day for us. But from the way you and Mama still live you'd never know it."

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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"?

no plagarism

me

no, but sometimes i do.