In this excerpt from anita desai’s short story “games at twilight,” which lines suggest that the children had completely forgotten about ravi?
with a whimper he burst through the crack, fell on his knees, got up, and stumbled on stiff, benumbed legs across the shadowy yard, crying heartily by the time he reached the veranda so that when he flung himself at the white pillar and bawled, “den! den! den! ” his voice broke with rage and pity at the disgrace of it all, and he felt himself flooded with tears and misery.

out on the lawn, the children stopped chanting. they all turned to stare at him in amazement. their faces were pale and triangular in the dusk. the trees and bushes around them stood inky and sepulchral, spilling long shadows across them. they stared, wondering at his reappearance, his passion, his wild animal howling. their mother rose from her basket chair and came toward him, worried, annoyed, saying, “stop it, stop it, ravi. don’t be a baby. have you hurt yourself? ” seeing him attended to, the children went back to clasping their hands and chanting, “the grass is green, the rose is red. . ”

but ravi would not let them. he tore himself out of his mother’s grasp and pounded across the lawn into their midst, charging at them with his head lowered so that they scattered in surprise. “i won, i won, i won,” he bawled, shaking his head so that the big tears flew. “raghu didn’t find me. i won, i won——”

it took them a minute to grasp what he was saying, even who he was. they had quite forgotten him. raghu had found all the others long ago. there had been a fight about who was to be it next. it had been so fierce that their mother had emerged from her bath and made them change to another game. then they had played another and another. broken mulberries from the tree and eaten them. the driver wash the car when their father returned from work. the gardener water the beds till he roared at them and swore he would complain to their parents. the parents had come out, taken up their positions on the cane chairs. they had begun to play again, sing and chant. all this time no one had remembered ravi. having disappeared from the scene, he had disappeared from their minds. clean.

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Plagiarism quiz read both the paragraph below and the information following it that identifies the source using the american psychological association format. then read each of the numbered statements and determine if each is plagiarized or not. circle “yes” if the statement is plagiarized, “no” if it is not, and then fix the “yes” answers). original source the presence of the taiwanese on everest was a matter of grave concern to most of the other expeditions on the mountain. there was a very real fear that the taiwanese would suffer a calamity that would compel other expeditions to come to their aid, risking further lives, to say nothing of jeopardizing the opportunity for other climbers to reach the summit. but the taiwanese were by no means the only group that seemed egregiously unqualified. camped beside us at base camp was a twenty-five-year-old norwegian climber named peter neby, who announced his intention to make a solo ascent of the southwest face, one of the peak’s most dangerous and technically demanding routes—despite the fact that his himalayan experience was limited to two ascents of neighboring island peak, a 20,274-foot bump that required little more than vigorous walking. krakauer, j. (1998). into thin air: a personal account of the mount everest disaster. new york: anchor books, 122 - 3. student samples yes 1. there was a very real fear that the taiwanese would suffer a calamity that would compel other expeditions to come to their aid(krakauer, 1998). no) 2. many climbers overestimate their abilities, as krakauer (1998) explains when he writes of peter neby, whose himalayan experience in the past “required little more than vigorous walking” (122 - 3). no 3. jon krakauer (1998) discusses other concerns besides those of unpredictable weather and his own climbing group’s capabilities. for example the existence of a taiwanese group on everest was a matter of serious unease to most everyone else on the mountain. yes/no 4. krakauer (1998) states that the taiwanese group was not the only inexpert climbers to attempt mt. everest: camped beside us at base camp was a twenty-five-year-old norwegian climber named peter neby. . [whose] himalayan experience was limited to two ascents of neighboring island peak, a 20,274-foot bump that required little more than vigorous walking (122 – 3). yes/no 5. the author asserts that the taiwanese “were by no means the only group that seemed egregiously unqualified.” yes/no 6. in his book into thin air, jon krakauer (1998) discusses many of the dangers he noted prior to his disastrous attempt to climb mt. everest in 1996. among them were encounters with other groups and individual climbers who were ill-trained and ill-equipped to handle the demands of such a climb.