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Hide your wife. Hide your kids. He wants to eat your babies.
Answer:
The best answer is c. She's confident that her daughter's attitude is the only reason she's not a genius.
Explanation:
Suyuan is the narrator's mother in Amy Tan's short story "Two Kinds". She is a Chinese woman who decides to make a child prodigy out of her daughter Jing-mei, sort of a Chinese Shirley Temple. She quizzes her on several subjects, changes her hair to make it curly and then short, and finally makes her take piano lessons. At first, Jing-mei is excited about the idea of being a prodigy. She likes to picture all the attention she'll receive, and believes problems won't exist if she is famous. She is not, however, willing to work hard to accomplish things. She chooses to be lazy and, since her mother is constantly nagging her, she chooses to fail. She even says she had the right to be a disappointment. She succeeds in letting her mother down at her piano recital, where she plays terribly. Suyuan is not fooled by her daughter's performance. She knows Jing-mei could have done better if she had been willing to apply herself. Years later, when Jing-mei is already grown up, Suyuan gives her the piano as a present and remarks precisely that:
"Well, I probably can't play anymore," I said. "It's been years." "You pick up fast," my mother said, as if she knew this was certain. “You have natural talent. You could be a genius if you want to." "No, I couldn't." "You just not trying," my mother said. And she was neither angry nor sad. She said it as if announcing a fact that could never be disproved. "Take it," she said.
Explanation:
Fall" (and any subsequent words) was ignored because we limit queries to 32 words.
Explanation:
There was once a poor boy who had no family. His mother left him when he was young and he never knew his dad. he barely had mony for food. He'd work his butt off day by day, and only have one token for bread each day. One fine evening he got a little too hooked up in a pirates business. The pirate didn't like him, so he took him off to an island. The pirate planned to kill him, but the boy was not afraid to die. The pirate could see he was in bad shape, so he decided to raise the boy. The boy was fed well and loved by this pirate whom he began to call dad.
Answer:
O Jonah has two ultimate goals: becoming a published columnist and writing a book.
Explanation:
Parallel structure in any given sentence is the use of the same grammatical structure or construction in the sentence. This repetition of the grammatical form in a single sentence allows for better readability and understanding, also making it easier to be framed.
In the given sentence, parallelism occurs in the use of the "<u>verb+ing</u>" in the words <em>"becoming"</em> and <em>"writing"</em>. It presents a smooth flow of words and the sentence construction makes for perfect rhythm. Thus, the correct answer is the first option.
