Read this quotation from chapter i of nature. to speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. which sentence from nature best supports emerson’s claim? i am glad to the brink of fear. nature is a setting that fits equally well a comic or a mourning piece. the sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child. in the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a child.

frances ellen watkins harper writing was influenced by: b. the education she received growing up in the north.

she was born in baltimore, maryland, on september 24, 1825. after the death of her parents, her uncle reverend william watkins, a teacher at the academy for negro youth, raised and educated her. she also continued educating herself by accessing a library of the family she worked for, beginning writing poetry afterwards. as a civil rights activist and abolitionist, watkins greatly influenced her life and work.

femininity is conveyed through bernice's personality. she doesn't act how the other girls act and everyone thinks she is weird. she learns how to act in a way that was considered femininely appropriate at the time. she becomes so popular but her attempts to be liked end up backfiring when she is pressured into bobbing her hair. the author wrote that bernice cut off her cousin's hair in revenge for tricking her to cut her hair. this was the authors way of trying to change the way feminine is defined and the way women are expected to act.