Fitzgerald wants to portray and characterize the US society in the 30s. By making this question about race and their opinion about it, the author intends to characterize American society as competitive, a value that is repeated throughout the story. One of the main purpose of the novel, in fact, is to show how competitive, materialistic, and full of glamour the society is, especially the people who live in East Egg like Tom and Daisy.
Answer:
"On the Bus with Rosa Parks"
In this excerpt, the poet’s narration reveals the poet’s feeling of pride in Rosa Parks.
Explanation:
"On the Bus with Rosa Parks" was a book of poems written by Pulitzer Prize winner and former U.S. Poet Laureate Rita Dove in 1925. It described Rosa Parks, the black woman who refused to give up her seat for a white man and played a pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott, galvanizing the Supreme Court to declare bus segregation laws null and void and ensured the end of segregation in buses.
Context clues are details that help a reader understand later parts of a passage or sentence.
Ex. The corgi, who had been rummaging in the garbage, smelled nasty.
If we are trying to find out what the word "nasty" means, the context clue in this sentence is "rummaging in the garbage". Garbage has a bad smell to it, a very unpleasant smell. Therefore nasty means unpleasant.
I hope my example helped you! ;)
Lady Macbeth persuades Macbeth to kill the king in Act1, Scene 7. She basically says that he would be a real man only if he dare to kill King Duncan.
