Jeffrey dialed the combination and opened his gym locker. There was his navy blue backpack, hanging on the hook where he’d left
it, but something seemed strange. Nothing looked tampered with, yet a chill ran up his back as took down his bag. He checked its contents carefully, but his books and papers were all there. Even his pack of gum was still in the side pocket. I must have been imagining things, he thought to himself as he put the bag on his back, closed the locker, and started out the school doors. Then he remembered: He’d put his new gym shoes in his backpack after PE class this morning because he wanted to wear them for basketball practice tonight! Jeffrey ran back to his locker, but they were nowhere in sight. 4 What kind of tone is evoked by the passage above? A. contentment B. anger C. happiness D. suspicion
We content means happy basically, a feeling of completion if you will so A and C (happy) are out. B. Is anger, but he doesn't know until the end that something was even missing, he just is uneasy. He is suspicious, he has a bad feeling that something was wrong.
-introductory paragraph (makes you want to read on, narrative thesis) -body paragraphs (supporting evidence for your narrative thesis) -conclusion paragraph (a moral of the story moment)
We live.—Knowing that today’s sun may give way to tomorrow’s rain.
The poem "Mutability
," by Percy Bysshe Shelley deals with universal truths of life and how people are in a permanent state of emotional change. In that respect, Bruno's line expands the idea that life is a constant transformation: the great happiness of the present may turn to misery in the future.
