Read the excerpt below from "two kinds" by amy tan and answer the question that follows.

"she bring home too many trophy," lamented auntie lindo that sunday. "all day she play chess. all day i have no time do nothing but dust off her winnings." she threw a scolding look at waverly, who pretended not to see her.

"you lucky you don't have this problem," said auntie lindo with a sigh to my mother.

and my mother squared her shoulders and bragged: "our problem worser than yours. if we ask jing-mei wash dish, she hear nothing but music. it's like you can't stop this natural talent."

and right then, i was determined to put a stop to her foolish pride.

the conversation between auntie lindo and suyuan woo is an example of which of the following characteristics of chinese culture?

a. obedience to authority is valued.
b. information is expressed indirectly.
c. people in charge are responsible for actions of their subordinates.
d. failure to abide by conventions of behavior can be shameful for the entire family.

B.  Information is expressed indirectly.

What we can see in this excerpt is that the two women are telling each other information in a roundabout sort of way.  This is done so as to not come off as bragging.  For instance, instead of saying that her daughter is so good at chess that she is constantly winning trophies, she says “All day I have no time do nothing but dust off her winnings.”  The pride she has is loosely masked as a complaint.  

in ray bradbury's short story "a sound of thunder", mr. eckels's fearfulness leads to drastic consequences for the rest of the world.

in the story, mr. eckels, who is a hunter, hires a time travel company to travel to the age of dinosaurs. although he is excited for the hunting expedition at the beginning, when they reach there and mr. eckels sees the tyrannosaurus, he feels frightened. as he is afraid of the tyrannosaurus, he steps off the path although he has been warned not to do it. by stepping off the path, the entire course of the future is affected: mr. eckart alters the future by stepping on a butterfly, which causes a new man to be elected president in the future. in that way, it is mr. eckart's fearfulness what triggers 'the butterfly effect' and what leads to drastic consequences for the rest of the world.

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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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