I would say the theme is that when a child grows up, what his/her circumstances are determines to a large degree how they will fare in life. In this case the girl was abandoned by her father and her mother couldn't look after her because she had to work so her daughter had to be brought up by relatives. Also, she is described as dark so perhaps dark skinned which would make her a target for racism if say in Canada or the US. Dr Gabor Mate, a medical doctor in the downtown eastside of Vancouver, BC Canada says that, for example, drug addicts have most often had a terrible upbringing so they have sought relief from the emotional and physical pain with narcotics. For example, one baby was kept in the dryer with a weight on the lid while his mom went to bars to pick up men.
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Read “By Any Other Name,” by Santha Rama Rau.
Identify diction that gives evidence of a developing conflict between the girls and the headmistress in the first scene.
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Diction refers to the selection of certain words or phrases. In the first scene, the headmistress assigns new names to the girls, instead of their real Indian ones, simply because she finds Indian names difficult to pronounce.
The conflict can be perceived in both the dialogue and the narrator´s choice of words.
Explanation:
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The author pejoratively says of the headmistress: "she still smiled her helpless inability to cope with Indian names".
The headmistress implies Indian names are not pretty when she says "Suppose we give you pretty English names." Then the narrator shows her sour attitude when describing her actions: "She shrugged in a baffed way at my sister." Of her sister, she explains how upset she was by saying "she kept a stubborn silence."
The sentence that is written in active voice is letter A. Drew aimed his nerf gun at the target and pulled the trigger. This active voiced sentence can be clearly identified because it uses regular verbs such as AIMED AND PULLED in its normal way without the TO-BE. On the other hand, the other sentences are in passive voice because they use WAS FILLED, WAS GIVEN AND WERE PICKED. It is also important to mention that the passive voiced is used to highlight the object of the sentence not the subject which sometimes it is not necessary to mention it.
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(1)At higher altitudes, there is less air pushing down from above.
(2)At higher altitudes, the gravity is weaker further from Earth's center.
Then, the particles can move further apart and spread out more.
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On another occasion George saves Tom from going to jail by settling the issue with a man called Cronshaw who threatened Tom to go to court if he didn't pay his money. George settles the issue by paying Cronshaw five hundred pounds. In this way Tom manages to get money from George.George helped his brother but at one point, he did not lend him money. At that instance, Tom blackmailed George by saying that he would work at a bar or as a taxi driver, thus tainting the family name. George agrees to lend Tom money in order to protect the family name.
