In all my years at shawshank, there have been less than ten men whom i believed when they told me they were innocent. andy dufresne was one of them, although i only became convinced of his innocence over a period of years. if i had been on the jury that heard his case in portland superior court over six stormy weeks in 1947-48, i would have voted to convinct, too. source: king, stephen. "rita hayworth and shawshank redemption." different seasons. new york: penguin group, 1982. google books. web. 16 may 2011. how does the point of view in the excerpt affect the characterization in the text? characterization emphasizes action and dialogue through third-person point of view. characterization occurs through the point of view of an all-seeing narrator who interprets and makes judgments. characterization occurs through the potentially biased point of view of one character. the excerpt is lacking any definite point of view because the narrator is not identified.

My friends asked me, “are you not coming for the party? "change into passive voice

Why should college athletes not get paid for playing state the claim a: point a b. direct quotation to support point a c.point b . direct quotation to support point b

[1] nothing that comes from the desert expresses its extremes better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas. tormented, thin forests of it stalk drearily in the high mesas, particularly in that triangular slip that fans out eastward from the meeting of the sierras and coastwise hills. the yucca bristles with bayonet-pointed leaves, dull green, growing shaggy with age like an old [5] man's tangled gray beard, tipped with panicles of foul, greenish blooms. after its death, which is slow, the ghostly hollow network of its woody skeleton, with hardly power to rot, makes even the moonlight fearful. but it isn't always this way. before the yucca has come to flower, while yet its bloom is a luxurious, creamy, cone-shaped bud of the size of a small cabbage, full of sugary sap. the indians twist it deftly out of its fence of daggers and roast the prize for their [10] own delectation why does the author use the words "bayonet-pointed" (line 4) and "fence of daggers" (line 9) to describe the leaves of the yucca tree? . to create an image of the sharp edges of the plant to emphasize how beautiful the plant's leaves are to explain when and where the plant grows to show how afraid the author is of the plant