Answer:
"The wide playgrounds were swarming with boys".
"The evening air was pale and chilly and after every charge and thud of the footballers the greasy leather orb flew like a heavy bird through the grey light".
Explanation:
The setting of any act or scene is the place where the events occur. The place or location of the scenes and the environment around it comprises the setting.
In the given passage from James Joyce's "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man", the phrases that reveal of implies the setting is <em>"The wide playgrounds were swarming with boys"</em>. This line gives the location of the scene, the playground. Moreover, the description of the atmosphere, <em>"the evening air"</em> and <em>"the greasy leather orb [flying] through the grey light"</em> presents another setting phrase.
Answer:
The writer mentions that Caesar was the first Roman to have come to Britain and describes Caesar's deeds admiringly. He considers Caesar a pioneer among the Romans. The writer glorifies the battle against the Britons. He also depicts Caesar as a very shrewd man.
Explanation:
from edmentum
One theme from Rikki Tikki Tavi would be courage. In Rudyard Kipling's story, Rikki has to fight two cobras, Nag and Nagaina, to protect his garden and Teddy. He is frightened of them because they are stronger and bigger than he is, but, knowing that he is a mongoose and meant to fight snakes, he overcomes his fear and fights them anyway. One line in the story to support this is "though Rikki-Tikki had never met a live cobra before, his mother had fed him on dead ones, and he knew that all a grown mongoose's business in life was to fight and eat snakes."
1. Tom feels noble and important because he likes to hear them say nice things about him, but he is also sad that he caused his aunt pain.
2. He does not leave his aunt the note like he planned to because he hears about the funeral planned for Sunday
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