The answer is compound. It has more then one subject happening in the situation.
What actually is this? A book?
The central idea of Mike kubick's article 'The salem (and other) witch hunts' was to show how people, mainly women, were chased by the Church and obliged to confess crimes they hadn't committed. All this hunt was made 'in the name of God' and it was very difficult to escape or to think about denouncing the problem to authorities since they were the same people that committed such an abominable act.
Answer:
The option that describes the context of the paragraph is that "The narrator is at the fair and wants to win a prize".
Explanation:
In the paragraph, it says that "If Bonnie returned home without a prize, then she would go back to her comfortable life on the farm, but I would be heartbroken", this shows that the desperate to win a prize at the fair and Bonnie would be competing against others in a competition regarding looks, as the narrator is combing her hair and adding a ribbon to her tail.
Answer:
Two themes to be explored could be madness/doom and survival.
Explanation:
Madness: when the line separating reality from imagination is blurred, people begin to act strangely, madly, and loose the ability to cope with feelings of anxiety or desperation in a coherent, healthy way.
- Why will this situation be developed? The situation of the four stranded seamen is condemned to become cahotic if their circumstances remained unchanged. The captain is already showing signs of desperation and paranoia in the form of a "stern impression of a scene in the grays of dawn...".
Survival: when people find themselves in life or death situations, a number of psycological mechanisms begin to activate to ensure survival: among them an increased sense of competitiveness. Also, people tend to become more resourceful to maximize the odds of preserving life, yet they also turn more viscious and territorial.
- Why will this situation be developed? The story is about four men stranded at sea, and though we lack information regarding their specific circumstances (food, supplies, tools), it is clear that their lives are at stake. The laws that rule society apply differently when the only concern is to remain alive and the circumstances are extreme.
