Identify three words that best describe Tom Sawyer as he is depicted in this excerpt. Choose one answer from each group. Type th
e LETTER ONLY for each answer in the correct blank. He wandered far from the accustomed haunts of boys, and sought desolate places that were in harmony with his spirit. A log raft in the river invited him, and he seated himself on its outer edge and contemplated the dreary vastness of the stream, wishing, the while, that he could only be drowned, all at once and unconsciously, without undergoing the uncomfortable routine devised by nature. Then he thought of his flower. He got it out, rumpled and wilted, and it mightily increased his dismal felicity. He wondered if she would pity him if she knew? Would she cry, and wish that she had a right to put her arms around his neck and comfort him? Or would she turn coldly away like all the hollow world? This picture brought such an agony of pleasurable suffering that he worked it over and over again in his mind and set it up in new and varied lights, till he wore it threadbare. At last he rose up sighing and departed in the darkness.
Type A, B, or C for Blank 1.
Assertive
Outraged
Thoughtful
Type D, E, or F for Blank 2.
Comfortable
Dramatic
Insensitive
Type G, H, or I for Blank 3.
Jaded
Imaginative
Irritated
Blank 1: C. He sought a desolate place to be in harmony with his spirit and many thoughts came to his mind.
Blank 2: E. The way he is depicted in the excerpt, he seems to be extremely disappointed with such hollow world, dramatic ideas cross his mind; he even thinks that the vastness of the stream is dreary.
Blank 3: H. He lets his imagination fly the whole time especially as he got out his flower and begun to wonder if she would pity him and comfort him.
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It helps the reader to understand the narrator from a number of different perspectives.
Explanation:
Poe typically wrote his stories in first person and he did this to allow readers to understand the narrator of the story and what their motives and reasoning for their actions were.
The bitter irony is that the people who perhaps most need and deserve to forgive themselves cannot. The necessary reflection and acknowledgment can be very difficult, because some people are burdened by forms of self-deception. Self-deception makes it difficult to identify when self-forgiveness is appropriate.
