One day I was lazy and I decided that I didn’t want to study for the English test I had the next day. I played video games, watched TV, and hung out with friends. The next morning I finished breakfast and got to school just fine. The time came to take the test and the teacher handed out the papers. We had forty minutes to complete the test. I looked down at the paper and couldn’t answer any of the problems. At the end of the class, I went to my teacher with an empty paper and apologized for not studying and failing th test. She let me do a retake the next day. From that day on, I always studied for any test I ever took again.
Answer:
C.
Explanation:
This is because the excerpt essentially states that England is ruled by a Frenchman (William the Conqueror) and continues to have French descent in the blood line of royalty and population.
Remark
Let's begin with the theme. What is the theme of this passage, exactly? Four people -- five if you include Dr. Heidegger -- are sitting around a circle bemoaning the fact that they have lost something not granted to anyone. They have lost their second youth. They have swallowed some water which gave them their youth only for a fleeting moment (it seems to them), and they mourn the passage of time that grants them no more youth that they had been living in for some short period.
The four felt that way. Only Dr. Heidegger seemed to have learned something that told him that he should be careful what he wished for: he might actually get it.
We have two themes then. We have 4 who wished for their youth back and we have one who didn't want any part of it. I think we have to cover both.
The best detail for those wanting it is the old woman who apparently got her youth back and she was incredibly beautiful. Now her hands are skinny and likely wrinkled. She puts those hands to her face and wishes herself to be dead because she despises the fact that she is old (and likely all her friends are dead and she is condemned to a life of weariness. I speculate, but is certainly unhappy about the aging process). She mourns that it is over so quickly. They all do. That's sentence 3.
Only Dr. Heidegger seems to understand that they got something they should never have received in the first place. The yellow sentence beginning with "Well I bemoan it not, ... " reflects his point view as well as anything. That's sentence 5.
Creative nonfiction is a genre of writing that uses literary styles and techniques to create factually accurate narratives.
In Cold Blood
Night Trilogy
The Glass Castle
Executioner’s Song
Emphasis
Most of the time explains the authors connection to the story
