Sample response: The general lesson from the reading is that inventing a useful product takes time and perseverance. You have to experiment, fail, and retry your ideas until you succeed.
Answer:
When Louisa moved to Washington, she started to work at the Union Hotel Hospital as a nurse.
Just after a few weeks after starting her job, she started to fell ill. She wrote in her journal that "bad air, food, water, work and watching are getting too much for me" and also "A more perfect pestilence-box than this house I never saw". The Union Hotel Hospital was actually a ghastly and dirty place, which was full of patients and medical workers. Moreover, the food was the same for patients and workers, which was unhealthy, repetitive and difficult to digest. These all things contributed to her illness.
But on the other side.
Even though her days were tiring and full of fatigue, she really liked it. She wrote in her journal that "Though often homesick, heart sick and worn out, I like it". She used to find her pleasure by comforting and cheering her patients.
1. To Graze or B
2. To Beseech or D
3. Haughty or D
4. Obvious or A
5. To Face or C
The clearest example of metafiction is the story. A story with footnotes that comment on the author's process.
Many resources can be employed to make use of metafiction (a narrative technique in which the author constantly reminds the reader that he or she is reading a fictional work), and some of them include:
- Telling a story within a story
- Telling a story about a third person who's reading or writing a book
- And of course, telling a story and making use of footnotes to comment on it
In this way the reader is engaged and becomes a participant in the story, forcing himself to think about the nature of the narration and how much credibility exists in the stories he/she reads.
