Answer:
Leita's character changes throughout the story in the following manner:
C. Leita goes from enjoying her life with Mr. Peters to missing her life as a swan.
Explanation:
Mr. Peters and Leita are characters in the short story "The Third Wish", by Joan Aiken. Leita was originally as swan. She was transformed into a woman after Mr. Peters, who was granted three wishes by the King of the Forest, uses his first wish. He asks for a wife as beautiful as the forest.
<u>At the beginning, Leita enjoys being a human and being married to Mr. Peters. She is a good wife to him, and she seems happy. But it does not take long for her to start missing her old life as a swan. And she begins to spend more and more time by the river to stay with her sister, who is still a swan. </u>
<u>Mr. Peter asks Leita if she has stopped loving him, but she says she hasn't. She still loves him. Then he asks if she wants to go back to being a swan, but Leita believes that wouldn't be fair to him. She cares about him too much to simply leave him. However, Mr. Peter eventually does wish for her transformation. She is grateful and, along with her sister, remains by his side even as a swan.</u>
Taking the details above into consideration, we can eliminate options A, B, and D. She does not resent him in any way, nor does she stop loving him. Option C is the best answer: Leita goes from enjoying her life with Mr. Peters to missing her life as a swan.
Weak point,
fatal flaw,
are a few synonyms for Tragic Flaw.
Answer:
Explanation:
The meaning of the "American Dream" has changed over the course of history, and includes both personal components (such as home ownership and upward mobility) and a global vision. Historically the Dream originated in the mystique regarding frontier life. As John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore, the colonial Governor of Virginia, noted in 1774, the Americans "for ever imagine the Lands further off are still better than those upon which they are already settled". He added that, "if they attained Paradise, they would move on if they heard of a better place farther west".
19th century
In the 19th century, many well-educated Germans fled the failed 1848 revolution. They welcomed the political freedoms in the New World, and the lack of a hierarchical or aristocratic society that determined the ceiling for individual aspirations. One of them explained:
The German emigrant comes into a country free from the despotism, privileged orders and monopolies, intolerable taxes, and constraints in matters of belief and conscience. Everyone can travel and settle wherever he pleases. No passport is demanded, no police mingles in his affairs or hinders his movements ... Fidelity and merit are the only sources of honor here. The rich stand on the same footing as the poor; the scholar is not a mug above the most humble mechanics; no German ought to be ashamed to pursue any occupation ... [In America] wealth and possession of real estate confer not the least political right on its owner above what the poorest citizen has. Nor are there nobility, privileged orders, or standing armies to weaken the physical and moral power of the people, nor are there swarms of public functionaries to devour in idleness credit for. Above all, there are no princes and corrupt courts representing the so-called divine 'right of birth.' In such a country the talents, energy and perseverance of a person ... have far greater opportunity to display than in monarchies.