Answer:
Taken from the ending part of the short story "The Black cat" by Edgar Allen Poe, the lines tell of the alcoholic protagonist's happiness in finding that the cat responsible for the incidental murder of his wife is nowhere to be seen in his house anymore.
Explanation:
Edgar Allen Poe's short story "The Black Cat" tells the story of an unnamed protagonist who is an alcoholic. His drunken act of killing his pet cat Pluto and then later on even his accidental murder of his wife leads to the situation he is in the start of he story- convicted to death.
The given excerpt is form the ending part of the story where he had successfully walled in his wife's corpse. He could't find the cat, he second pet cat, who had been the initial cause of the act. The lines show just how relieved he was to see that he could no longer find "<em>the monster</em>" in is house. But with this admission, he seems to be implying that he was free of the moral obligations in he society in general. This speech gave him he all clear in the murderous act, but which will in fact, return to haunt him and bring him to justice.
Taking into account the statement above: "What is the main conflict, or problem, concerns travis's inner maturation. When the fourteen-year-old is suddenly thrust into the role of head of the household, he has to deal with inner conflict, as well as outer conflict involving his household, wild animals, thieves, and hostile neighbors?"
Answer: Yeller becomes a surrogate father for Travis; the dog loves Travis unconditionally and a soul to whom Travis can confide his troubles.
Travis's climax is when Yeller gets rabies while fighting off a wolf. He knows that, for the good of his family, he has to shoot Yeller. This signifies his maturation, because is the main problem, on boy to man. At the end of the novel, Travis adopts one of Yeller's puppies from a neighbor's litter and, along with it, a new understanding of life, death, and the cycles of time.
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Answer:
She is sad because the narrator's return means that the moment has come when she will need to leave the house where she lived for many years and has many memories.
Explanation:
"My Old Home," shows the moment when the narrator returns to his hometown, after 20 years, to help his family move to another home. The house where the narrator grew up is no longer of the same quality and needs to be abandoned. The narrator feels strange when reviewing the house, because he no longer has the emotional attachment to this place and does not feel that this is his house. He realizes that his mother is also a little sad, probably because she lived in this house for many years and leaving for another house, causes her to leave many precious memories behind.
Answer:
1. What is underlined?
2. What is underlined?
3. D. get over
4. D. set up
5. C. close down
6. C. going on
7. A. lanterns
8. C. by far
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