With objective humor, Elder Browns Backslide highlights how pointless and meaningless the human experience can be if sedentary alienation and monotony drives social life to the extreme of becoming resigned or complacent. And also how beauty and bliss can come across from the most simple things.
Read the excerpt from “A Pair of Silk Stockings” by Kate Chopin and answer the question that follows.
Little Mrs. Sommers one day found herself the unexpected possessor of fifteen dollars. It seemed to her a very large amount of money, and the way in which it stuffed and bulged her worn old [pocketbook] gave her a feeling of importance such as she had not enjoyed for years. . . .
A man with keen eyes, who sat opposite to her, seemed to like the study of her small, pale face. It puzzled him to decipher what he saw there. In truth, he saw nothing—unless he were wizard enough to detect a poignant wish, a powerful longing that the cable car would never stop anywhere, but go on and on with her forever.
Source: Chopin, Kate. “A Pair of Silk Stockings.” The Awakening and Selected Short Stories. Project Gutenberg, 11 Mar. 2006. Web. 12 May 2011.
Which point of view does this excerpt illustrate?
third-person limited
second-person
third-person omniscient
first-person
Answer:
Third person omniscient.
Explanation:
This type of view/narration uses an external type of view or sometimes called "all-knowing" point of view where the thoughts and actions of different characters are known and described by the narrator.
From the excerpt, the third person omniscient view is used to show the thoughts and actions of Mrs Sommers and the "man with keen eyes"
Answer:
The simple future is a verb tense that’s used to talk about things that haven’t happened yet, here, raining. We use the simple future to talk about an action or condition that will begin and end in the future. The formula for the simple future in the negative is will + not + [root form of verb], that is, will not rain or won't rain. Hence, Option B is correct.
The rest of the options do not express this condition. They either mention actions that have already happened (options C and D) or actions that are happening in the present (option A).
Hence these options are incorrect.
Based on the excerpt above taken from this story, what the underlined term (Okie) means as it is used in this context is someone who is from the West and whose parents are also of the same origin. Also, fun fact, "Like Mexicans" is actually a short story by Gary Soto.
The answer is A) Someone who is from the west whose parents are from the west.
