Answer: It is about both Eliza and Matildas mother.
Explanation:
They both “supped” which means to spoon in great amounts. They supped sadness, meaning they had just experienced some sort of tragedy and it overwhelmed their senses and it was all they could do, mourning essentially became their main focus.
Lincoln states in his letter to Miss Merry Speed, a personal friend, that he was amazed to see that the slaves on the boat were happy even though they were bought and were being shipped off to plant in the South. This made him contemplate the effect of the condition upon the happiness of people.
Answer: To illustrate Japan's isolation in the 1800s.
Explanation: The outside source in this excerpt (the first few lines) clearly describes how while the rest of the world was dealing with monarchies, wars and developing new technologies like trains and wheels, Japan decided to be totally closed off from all of that, and they concentrated just in painting screens for 200 years.
Assuming
that the essay is the epic poem from around 1000 CE focusing on Beowulf in a third
person narrative:
<span>“A
man would roar, "I'll steal their gold and burn their meadhall!"
shaking his sword as if the tip were afire, and a man with eyes like two pins
would say, "Do it now, Cowface! I think you're not even the man your
father was!" The people would laugh. I would back away into the darkness,
furious at my stupid need to spy on them, and I would glide to the next camp of
men, and I'd hear the same.”</span>
