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Foolishness
The state of being foolish. (countable) A thing or event that is foolish, or an absurdity.
Yes you're answer (b) is correct. hope I helped. :)
Hamlet is one of Shakespeare's most troubled characters, and he contemplates on life and death quite a lot. In these lines it is apparent that death is inevitable, it will come for us all no matter who we are. Both Alexander and Caesar were once great men, it seemed it was impossible for them to die. But they did, the same way every living creature will eventually. We will die, and turn to dust, then to earth, and so on. No one can escape that fate, no matter how hard we try. Regardless who you are in life, you will share the same doom with every other creature that once lived.
We meet our narrator, who remembers his boyhood with his mother in the Middle Kingdom (or "China," if you don't want the Chinese to English translation) while his father worked in the Land of the Golden Mountain (the USA, "the demon land," etc.).We learn that the narrator's father is working overseas to earn money.The racial tension and violence in America is immediately addressed when we learn that the narrator's grandfather was lynched thirty years ago (1.1).The narrator's mother pulls the weight on the family farm in China. Her mad busy schedule also doubles as a convenient excuse to avoid the narrator's questions about his father and America.Not only is she busy with the chickens, the rice fields, and the pig, the narrator's mom also prays and burns incense for her husband in the village temple.We also learn that the narrator has never met his father. He and his mother cannot live in the Land of the Golden Mountain with his father because of political reasons both on the American front and the Chinese side. We learn that this affects many families, the narrator's being one.The narrator refers to his race of people as people of the Tang, not as Chinese (1.5). This specificity alludes to the long history of what we know as China and the multiple dynasties that have ruled its people.We learn that the narrator's mother and grandmother are illiterate, much like the majority of the people in their village. The family relies on the village schoolmaster to read and take dictation to write letters to Father. We learn that Father's letters arrive on a weekly basis (1.6).The narrator knows very little about his father, but he is thrilled by this one thing his mother has told him: his father makes amazing kites. Not like the kind you get for a couple bucks at the grocery store, mind you – but kites that "were often treasured by their owners like family heirlooms" (1.7).The narrator recounts moments when he and his mother would go out flying his father's kites. One of these kites was a swallow, an especially fast kite. Another was of a caterpillar.We learn that the narrator is seven years old (to an American catalogue of time); he shares that the Tang people include the gestation period of a baby as its first year, so by his count he's eight.Mother comes alive whenever the narrator and she go fly kites, chattering away about the times she and Father would go kiting together.Grandmother tells the narrator about the Land of the Golden Mountain, explaining that the name for the land abroad comes from the huge mountain there where gold is plentiful. She tells the narrator that "the demons" (that seems a fair way to refer to Americans, eh?) patrol the mountain and beat up anyone who does other than they're told (1.16).
The exercise is about Reflective Essays. The purpose of a Reflective Essay is for the writer to give an account of their experience of a particular event AND how that event has shaped them.
<h3>How do you write a Reflective Essay?</h3>
It is to be noted that the question is asking the student to focus on the artwork and use their knowledge and experience of history to write about it.
Please note that your response must include descriptions of the art, it's origins, who created it, when it was created, what techniques were used by the artist to create it, etc.
Every effective essay must start with proper outlines. One of the easiest outlines to use is the I - MID - C format. I refer to the introduction. This is where you state briefly the nature of the art and your experience with it.
The next is the MID, which is the midsection or body of the essay. This is where you use all the prompts you have been given in the essay to flesh out your thoughts. It is important to note that your thoughts here must be coherent, fact-based, and connected logically.
Then there is C - conclusion. Here, don't forget to summarize your central idea and conclude. Do ensure that you check through for grammatical errors.
Learn more about Reflective Essays at:
brainly.com/question/4013213
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