What is the central idea of this excerpt from “a jury of her peers” by susan glaspell? the county attorney did not heed her. "no sign at all of any one having come in from the outside," he said to peters, in the manner of continuing an interrupted conversation. "their own rope. now let's go upstairs again and go over it, piece by piece. it would have to have been someone who knew just the—" the stair door closed behind them and their voices were lost. the two women sat motionless, not looking at each other, but as if peering into something and at the same time holding back. when they spoke now it was as if they were afraid of what they were saying, but as if they could not saying it. "she liked the bird," said martha hale, low and slowly. "she was going to bury it in that pretty box." "when i was a girl," said mrs. peters, under her breath, "my kitten—there was a boy took a hatchet, and before my eyes—before i could get there—" she covered her face an instant. "if they hadn't held me back i would have"—she caught herself, looked upstairs where footsteps were heard, and finished weakly—"hurt him." then they sat without speaking or moving. "i wonder how it would seem," mrs. hale at last began, as if feeling her way over strange ground—"never to have had any children around? " her eyes made a slow sweep of the kitchen, as if seeing what that kitchen had meant through all the years. "no, wright wouldn't like the bird," she said after that—"a thing that sang. she used to sing. he killed that too." her voice tightened. the different ways things are perceived by men and women the difference in intelligence between men and women the unbiased nature of men and the loyal nature of women the gender neutrality between men and women

compare & contrast informative essay/speech

when speaking or writing for the sole purpose of providing information in order to give audience members a good basis for making a decision, you would present an informative speech or essay.   because you wouldn’t want to be persuading the audience by arguing for one type of exercise over the other, you wouldn’t choose a persuasive/argumentative technique.   to fairly, and without bias, present information about the pros and cons of each type exercise, a compare/contrast, informative speech/essay would be the best bet.

in a place once known as north america, now known as panem, is a very rich city surrounded by twelve districts. every year because this very rich city, known as the capitol, is so rich and likes to think they control all the districts - which they do - there is something known as the hunger games! this is where two children, one boy and one girl from each district from the ages of twelve to eighteen, have to leave their families and compete in the hunger games, a live event that is aired on tv's all over panem. when katniss everdeen, aged sixteen from district 12, has to volunteer to take the place of her twelve-year-old sister prim after prim's name is called forth to become the 23rd member to compete in the 74th hunger games, she promises to prim that she will win! katniss doesn't believe she's coming out alive - but she's not going down without a fight.

because district 12 is so poor, katniss has been close to death many times from starvation but she's made it through it. but this is a different kind of close to death; this katniss doesn't know if she can survive.

she doesn't want to hurt, or kill anyone but when it comes down to it katniss' instinct is to survive. but when she starts to have confusing feelings about the boy from her district who is also her fellow contender, things get worse, and then she teams up with the girl from district 11 and only one person can survive. but who will it be? will her feelings get the better of her? will she let someone else win so they don't have to die? if katniss is going to win she's going to have to be brutal. she's going to have to kill!