C. draw attention to key terms
Ms. Flowers is the "noble" of dark Stamps, she is a generous lady who energizes Maya's affection for writing, and furthermore helps Maya to break out of her muteness. Maya sees her as the apex of mankind. Maya discovers Ms. Blooms a one of a kind good example. She is a dark lady who declines to curve to the generalizations set upon dark ladies at the time. Maya discovers Ms. Blooms to be smart, mindful, pleased and true. Maya tries to resemble her one day. Like Ms. Blossoms, Maya needs to hold her head high not just as a dark lady but rather a glad and shrewd person.
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- He found, as he often told my sister, broken horse-shoes (a "bad sign"), met cross-eyed women, another "bad sign," was pursued apparently by the inimical number thirteen—and all these little straws depressed him horribly.
- One day on coming back home he found one of his hats lying on his bed, accidentally put there by one of the children, and according to my sister, who was present at the time, he was all but petrified by the sight of it. To him it was the death-sign.
Explanation:
The two sentences listed above characterize Paul as a superstitious person. A superstitious person is a person who strongly believes in irrational things (for example, a belief in magic). Common superstitions include:
- if you break a mirror, you will have bad luck for seven years
- if a black cat crosses your path, bad luck awaits you
- if you open an umbrella inside your house, you will have bad luck, etc.
Paul, in these sentences, is presented as someone who believes that broken-horse shoes, cross-eyed woman, number thirteen, or his hat on the bed announce that bad things will happen. All of these examples suggest that Paul is a superstitious person.
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Montresor decides to seek revenge against Fortuanato because he believes that Fortunato has insulted him. The story says "the thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge." We are not told the specifics of this insult.
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