Read the passage below from an essay on “the theme of transformation in the true confessions of charlotte doyle” and answer the question. charlotte’s transformation is marked by her realization of jaggery’s true nature. as charlotte herself says, “it was i—despite clear warnings—who had refused to see captain jaggery as the villainous man he was…” this realization is the first step in charlotte’s transformation from someone who can’t see past appearances, to someone who can. in terms of a literary analysis essay, why is this last sentence important? it introduces new evidence. it sets up the quote so it can be explained. it explains why the quote is relevant. it hooks readers so they keep reading.

"this is just to say" by william carlos williams, which of these poetic devices does this poem most represent?

Read the excerpt. … in lower burma, i was hated by large numbers of people. … i was subdivisional police officer of the town, and … anti-european feeling was very bitter. … as a police officer i was an obvious target and was baited whenever it seemed safe to do so. … i had already made up my mind that imperialism was an evil thing. … i was all for the burmese and all against their oppressors, the british. what is the situational irony in the excerpt from “shooting an elephant” by george orwell? the narrator is a british police officer and part of the system he dislikes. the narrator is himself a well-liked member of the burmese government. the narrator has recently become a burmese citizen. the narrator has decided to leave the british empire.

Stone, two or three feet thick, the door of wood and iron, a foot thick, and the iron grating which strained the light, i could not being struck with the foolishness of that institution which treated me as if i were mere flesh and blood and bones, to be locked up. i wondered that it should have concluded at length that this was the best use it could put me to, and had never thought to avail itself of my services in some way. i saw that, if there was a wall of stone between me and my townsmen, there was a still more difficult one to climb or break through before they could get to be as free as i was. i did not for a moment feel confined, and the walls seemed a great waste of stone and mortar. i felt as if i alone of all my townsmen had paid my tax. — “civil disobedience,” henry david thoreau based on this passage, how did thoreau feel about his confinement?