<span>The poem is loosely structured and contains repetition.</span>
Answer:
The main conflict is the choice of whether Yasi should come clean to her Grandma about her sexuality and Hannah or not.
Considering the sensitivity of the situation, it would seem like the thing to do is be secretive about it. But to be able to openly enjoy her life with Hannah, Yasi needs to at least keep her family informed about her situation. This will help keep her loved ones together, even if she doesn't tell it to everyone in the community or society. As long as her immediate family members know about it, that should be all that matters.
Explanation:
The case of one's sexuality is a sensitive and even taboo subject in many parts of the modern world. <u>Yasi's reluctance to come clean to her Grandmother about her bisexuality is one major conflict in the story so far</u>. Even though she had told her parents about it, not everyone in her family knows it yet. And she wanted to keep it that way too, to save everyone the hurt and pain it might bring.
But at the same time, if she can tell her grandmother about it, then she can be assured that at least those important to her know about her life. She need not tell it everyone in the community or society, as long as her family knows the truth. She owes no one anything, nor does her happiness depend on their opinions. But at the same time, she should do the right thing by telling at least her family members.
Answer: She did not hear the story as many women have heard the same, with a paralyzed inability to accept its significance
Explanation:
This excerpt is from the short story, <em>The Story of an Hour</em> which tells the story of Mrs. Mallard who had just received news that her husband had passed away.
After weeping for a time she warms up to this fact and is actually looking forward to living her life without being under a man. Her joy is short-lived however as her husband did survive. She then dies from a sort of heart attack.
From the excerpt, the sentence that shows Mrs. Mallard was a sensible woman was, <em>She did not hear the story as many women have heard the same, with a paralyzed inability to accept its significance </em>because she seemed to have understood the significance of her husband dying immediately unlike, as the story posits, most women who would have been unable to accept the significance of the news immediately.
<span>Read the passage and write a one-paragraph response of at least three to five sentences.
A man stood upon a railroad bridge in northern Alabama, looking down into the swift water twenty feet below. The man's hands were behind his back, the wrists bound with a cord. A rope closely encircled his neck. It was attached to a stout cross-timber above his head and the slack fell to the level of his knees. Some loose boards laid upon the sleepers supporting the metals of the railway supplied a footing for him and his executioners-two private soldiers of the Federal army, directed by a sergeant who in civil life may have been a deputy sheriff. At a short remove upon the same temporary platform was an officer in the uniform of his rank, armed. He was a captain. A sentinel at each end of the bridge stood with his rifle in the position known as "support," that is to say, vertical in front of the left shoulder, the hammer resting on the forearm thrown straight across the chest-a formal and unnatural position, enforcing an erect carriage of the body. It did not appear to be the duty of these two men to know what was occurring at the center of the bridge; they merely blockaded the two ends of the foot planking that traversed it.
Beyond one of the sentinels nobody was in sight; the railroad ran straight away into a forest for a hundred yards, then, curving, was lost to view. Doubtless there was an outpost farther along. The other bank of the stream was open ground-a gentle acclivity topped with a stockade of vertical tree trunks, loopholed for rifles, with a single embrasure through which protruded the muzzle of a brass cannon commanding the bridge. Midway of the slope between the bridge and fort were the spectators-a single company of infantry in line, at "parade rest," the butts of the rifles on the ground, the barrels inclining slightly backward against the right shoulder, the hands crossed upon the stock. A lieutenant stood at the right of the line, the point of his sword upon the ground, his left hand resting upon his right.
Excepting the group of four at the center of the bridge, not a man moved. The company faced the bridge, staring stonily, motionless. The sentinels, facing the banks of the stream, might have been statues to adorn the bridge. The captain stood with folded arms, silent, observing the work of his subordinates, but making no sign. Death is a dignitary who when he comes announced is to be received with formal manifestations of respect, even by those most familiar with him. In the code of military etiquette silence and fixity are forms of deference.
What has probably happened before this passage begins? Be sure to support your response with at least two examples from the text.</span>
