Answer:
To show the first human failure that contributed to the spread of the fire.
Explanation:
"The Great Fire" by Jim Murphy is children's story about the 'Great Fires of Chicago' that burned down almost half of Chicago.
Jim Murphy started the story with the fire and then proceeded to tell of how the families were. By starting the story <em>in medias res</em>, he brings to the point the failures of humans that eventually led to the fire. Though the fire brought out the real issues of the families against each other, Jim didn't mention them before the fire. Instead, he focused on the fire first and then begins the background of the story.
Answer and Explanation:
"Islands and Icebergs" by Ralph Semino Galan is a poem about reading a poem. <u>The speaker asks readers to imagine the paper as being the ocean and the words to be floating on the that ocean. That is a clue as to why he writes three lines per stanza. The length of the lines, along with their number, reminds us of the waves, even the foam, to floats up and down, back and forth, on the ocean. The author wrote three lines per stanza as a way to make the poem itself resemble an ocean, instead of simply asking as to imagine it.</u>
Answer:
Manuel and Anton both show great courage during the story's climax. Neither character backs down from his challenge. Instead, both show that they are incredibly brave.
Explanation:
Answer:
<u>C) Julian's mother views life's struggles as a necessary challenge.</u>
Explanation:
<em>O’Conner’s ‘Everything that Rises Must Converge’ is a story about Julian’s mother who is a widow and who thinks that races should remain isolated. From the story, we get to know that Julian’s mother has struggled a lot in her life. He made immense sacrifices for her son; she sacrificed her hunger, her thirst so that her son did not remain hungry. She supports him at every stage of his life.</em>
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<em>From all these, one can easily figure that that Julian’s mother viewed life’s struggle as a challenge. Had it not been for her son, she probably wouldn’t have struggled this hard. But it was Julian for whom she faced all the challenges and difficulties of life.</em>
<em><u>Option C</u></em>
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