Early American and Colonial Literature
Focus on looking back over your arguments frequently. Keep yourself on track for the point that you're trying to create by staying both true and relevant to the topic at hand. Also, provide good support for your argument. Avoid making assumptions. Lastly, compare your argument to the list of all fallacies. Does your piece fall under any of those at any time? If so, you then know what to fix. Hope this helps.
The correct answer, in my opinion, is C. <span>There is within me (and with sadness I have watched it in others) a knot of cruelty borne by the stream of love, much as our blood sometimes bears the seed of our destruction, and at times I was mean to Doodle.
The narrator recalls his own cruelty, but also hints that this cruelty (and its consequences) will haunt him forever. At this point, we anticipate that he is going to do something bad to Doodle, even though the narrator softens this anticipation by telling us that it used to happen "at times". Also, the simile "much as our blood sometimes bears the seed of our destruction" tells us that the narrator will never break free from this regret.
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<span>c. to prove that the building is taller than Bissex Hill </span>
<span> I believe that the excerpt which best reflect Gregor's isolated condition after his transformation is the first one:
He got into the habit of closely watching it for one or two hours before
it was opened and then, lying in the darkness of his room where he
could not be seen from the living room, he could watch the family in the
light of the dinner table and listen to their conversation—with
everyone's permission, in a way, and thus quite differently from before.
It shows how his family were all together, his parents and his sister, enjoying their time watching TV and talking, while he was in the other room all alone, with no one to talk to. He is lonely and completely isolated after his transformation, although he used to be the same thing even before he became a bug.
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