Answer: Yes it is
Explanation:
The beautiful thing about fiction is that it can predict how reality will go before reality happens. It can hold up a temporal mirror to society and say to it "if you don't stop what you are doing, this is what will happen".
If we were to rely on non-fiction to teach people all the time then we would only be able to react to problems instead of act to avert them because with reality we can only learn in hindsight.
Fiction can be used to show what will happen if a certain behavior continues or is started thereby convincing people to either continue or stop. Fiction is therefore very useful in convincing people of certain ideas.
One instance of selfishness is with the Birling family, who appear to live in their own “comfortable” bubble of wealth and avarice, which inhibits and warps their views of the world. For instance, the stage directions describe the “suburban” Birling family home as “pink and intimate”. The use of the adjective “pink” connotes ‘rose tinted spectacles’; the sense that the Birling family has a nostalgic, anachronistic and out-of-touch perception of the world, implying they are detached from the realities of modern Britain. This feeling is further augmented when the Inspector arrives and shatters their rapacious ignorance. The lighting changes drastically, going to “brighter and harder”. The implication of such a change is that the Inspector is shining a light (as though in a police interrogation) on areas the Birlings had never previously seen (because of the ignorance afforded to them by their greed and selfishness).
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There are two types of expressions of phrasal verbs.
Answer:
D. To understand the story in a new way
Explanation:
Understanding the author's background can give you an idea of why he/she wrote the book and what lesson or theme they're trying to teach the reader.
