1. which of the following words best characterizes the author's opinion of the plant in the following passage? sides of beef suspended from an overhead trolley swing toward a group of men. each worker has a large knife in one hand and a steel hook in the other. they grab the meat with their hooks and attack it fiercely with their knives. as they hack away, using all their strength, grunting, the place suddenly feels different, primordial. the machinery seems beside the point, and what's going on before me has been going on for thousands of years—the meat, the hook, the knife, men straining to cut more meat. work cited schlosser, eric. “the most dangerous job.” fast food nation: the dark side of the all-american meal. boston: houghton mifflin, 2001. 169-192. print. a. overly mechanized b. brutal c. surprisingly peaceful d. sentimental

Which two characteristics are basic parts of a literary analysis essay about a play

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Javier is writing a literary analysis of the secret garden. read this introduction to his essay. frances burnett’s “the secret garden” explores the challenges of a sickly, self-centered little girl named mary lennox. after mary’s parents die of cholera, she moves from india to england to live at her uncle’s estate in yorkshire. while living at the old estate, mary discovers an abandoned garden that belonged to her deceased aunt. tending to the neglected garden brings mary joy, and her health improves. through mary’s transformation, burnett presents nature as a symbol of rebirth and healing. which piece of textual evidence should javier use to support the claim made in the introduction? a. “‘it’s in the garden no one can go into,’ she said to herself. ‘it’s the garden without a door. he lives in there. how i wish i could see what it is like! ’” b. “in india she had always felt hot and too languid to care much about anything. the fact was that the fresh wind from the moor had begun to blow the cobwebs out of her young brain and to waken her up a little.” c. “mary felt lonelier than ever when she knew she was no longer in the house. she went out into the garden as quickly as possible, and the first thing she did was to run round and round the fountain flower garden ten times.” d. “‘it isn’t a quite dead garden,’ she cried out softly to herself. ‘even if the roses are dead, there are other things alive.’”