Superiority Theory is when you laugh at someone else’s expense. You are making fun of them because you feel superior to them.
Release Theory is you laugh to release nervous energy.
Incongruity Theory is a joke that a comedian would use. “The most common kind of joke is that in which we expect one thing and another is said; here our own disappointed expectation makes us laugh.”
Answer:
1) wants to hide her true feelings about Robert.
Explanation:
<u>In the story, Amy Tan is very much in love with Robert. </u>That is why, when he and his family arrive for the Christmas dinner, she is trying hard to hide her feelings. She does this by ignoring Robert, and pretending she is better than him by acting as if he is "not worthy of existence".
This is the tactic of the opposite sometimes used by people when they like someone - they will act very disinterested in order to draw their attention and seem cool.
1. Beatrice says that the purpose of the simplicity in her town's design is to help them forget themselves. The Abnegation have dull hairstyles and wear dull clothes, and they only eat dull food. They try to keep everything dull because they believe that forgetting yourself makes it easier to be selfless, as vanity causes selfishness.
2. When Beatrice is talking to Caleb, she hears the whistle of a dauntless train in the distance,and says that "it sounds like the Dauntless, calling me to them." She realizes that she wants to be free, and that she doesn't want to give up the part of herself that makes her Beatrice Prior. From this you can infer that she will most likely transfer to Dauntless at the choosing ceremony.
This was at the begining of the age of the industrialisation, factory work was very harsh, workers had to live in a very small and crowded space, many weren't insured and didn't get enough money for working 12 or more hours a day.
