Read the excerpt below and answer the question.

so from every window and door in the house where they were living happily ever after they now saw the trees and sky through bars, and when the little boy’s pet cat tried to climb in by the fanlight to keep him company in his little bed at night, as it customarily had done, it set off the alarm keening through the house.

what inference can you make about the couple’s life from the passage?

they want to protect their community.
they are living happily ever after.
they are becoming more isolated socially and culturally.
they are about to make several major changes in their lives.

Think about an important point you want to make to someone. maybe you want to tell someone you love them. perhaps you need to ask your boss for time off. or you want to get your neighbors to keep their dog from using your lawn as a restroom. whatever the message, however light or serious the tone, use the poetry techniques from lesson 1 to you communicate it in the form of a poem. use at least two examples of figurative language and at least two sound devices (you may choose rhyme as one of your sound devices). bold print or highlight the figurative language and sound devices in your poem to point them out to the reader. this is a creative writing endeavor. have some fun with poetry techniques from lesson one include metaphor simile and personification and sound devices are alliteration assonance consonance and onomatopoeia

Read the paragraph from nick’s personal narrative. standing alone in my family’s barn, i thought about how much hard work and time my parents had invested—how much hard work and time we had all invested—in maintaining a fully operational farm. i did not remember a time when my clothes had not reeked of manure or my hair had not held fast to brittle pieces of straw. what would happen if my parents had to sell the farm so we could move closer to my grandparents? just as i was attempting to imagine a life in the city, a sudden commotion erupted and interrupted my thoughts. with animals squawking and dust flying, i scrambled to pinpoint the source of this unexpected intrusion. in seconds that felt more like minutes, i was successful . . and i could scarcely believe what my eyes were seeing. which element of a personal narrative would be best for nick to include next?

Discuss the theme of outcasts in these chapters in at least two hundred words. what does it mean that the church takes in people that the clan rejects? how is nwoye an outcast? how does the clan treat the missionaries as outcasts?