The following excerpt is from Kevin Powers' The Yellow Birds (published in 2012). In this passage, the main character, Private John Bartle, is home on leave from military service
and is thinking about a fellow soldier. Read the passage carefully. Then, in a well-written
essay, analyze how Powers uses literary elements and techniques to reveal Private
Bartle's complex perspective.
In your response you should do the following:
• Respond to the prompt with a thesis that presents an interpretation and may establish a
line of reasoning.
Select and use evidence to develop and support your line of reasoning.
Explain the relationship between the evidence and your thesis.
I sat down there awhile until the sun was straight above me and the light fell down in wide
columns and sweat ran down between my shoulder blades. I decided then to walk the tracks
toward the city. It wasn't so much a decision as it was a product of trying to turn off my mind. I
couldn't stop thinking about Murph. I drifted and followed the guidance of the tops of my boots
and I tried not to think and when I got back up to the porch, I wiped the sweat from my forehead,
opened the sliding door, put a few things in my duffel bag, and left.

Select the contred text in the passage which sentence in this excerpt from john galsworthy's narrative essay "gone" reflects his view that there is no afterlife? an old woman and mrs. herd's sister were in the sitting-room, they showed us to the crazy, narrow stairway. though we lived distant but four hundred yards of a crows flight, we had never seen mrs. herd before, for that is the way of things in this land of minding one's own business a slight dark girlish-looking woman, almost quite refined away, and with those eyes of the dying, where the spirit is coming through, as it only does when it knows that al is over except just the passing. she lay in a double bed with clean white sheets. a white-washed room, so low that the ceiling almost touched our heads, some flowers in a bow, the small lattice window open. though it was hot in there, it was better far than the rooms of most families in towns, living on a wage of twice as much, for here was no sign of defeat in decency or cleanliness. in her face, as in poor herd's, was that same strange minging of resigned despair and almost eager appeal, so terrible to disappoint. yet, trying not to disappoint it, one felt guilty of treachery: what was the good, the kindness in making this poor bird flutter still with hope against the bars, when fast prison had so surely closed in round her? but what else could we do? we could not give her those glib assurances that naive souls make so easily to others concerning their after state. and the night was so beautiful, so utterly glamourously beautiful, with its star-flowers, and its silence and its trees clothed in moonlight. all was tranquil as a dream of sleep. but it was long before our hearts wandering with poor herd, would let us remember that she had slipped away into so beautiful a dream

Read this sentence. the table was given to lexi by her grandmother. which of the following revises this sentence to include another prepositional phrase? the table in the kitchen was given to lexi by her grandmother. the table was given to lexi by her beloved grandmother. the table was given to lexi by her grandmother ruth. the wooden table was given to lexi by her grandmother. submit skip save and close

Identify the sentence in which the underlined word or words are punctuated incorrectly. a) pam was (well prepared) for the debate. b) she had (read three quarters) of the material more than once. c) she has always been (self assured). d) the winner needs a (two-thirds) majority of the votes.