1answer.
Ask question
Login Signup
Ask question
All categories
  • English
  • Mathematics
  • Social Studies
  • Business
  • History
  • Health
  • Geography
  • Biology
  • Physics
  • Chemistry
  • Computers and Technology
  • Arts
  • World Languages
  • Spanish
  • French
  • German
  • Advanced Placement (AP)
  • SAT
  • Medicine
  • Law
  • Engineering
Kamila [148]
3 years ago
10

An accident again changed the current of my ideas. When I was about fifteen years old we had retired to our house near Belrive,

when we witnessed a most violent and terrible thunderstorm. It advanced from behind the mountains of Jura, and the thunder burst at once with frightful loudness from various quarters of the heavens. I remained, while the storm lasted, watching its progress with curiosity and delight. As I stood at the door, on a sudden I beheld a stream of fire issue from an old and beautiful oak which stood about twenty yards from our house; and so soon as the dazzling light vanished, the oak had disappeared, and nothing remained but a blasted stump. When we visited it the next morning, we found the tree shattered in a singular manner. It was not splintered by the shock, but entirely reduced to thin ribbons of wood. I never beheld anything so utterly destroyed.
Before this I was not unacquainted with the more obvious laws of electricity. On this occasion a man of great research in natural philosophy was with us, and excited by this catastrophe, he entered on the explanation of a theory which he had formed on the subject of electricity and galvanism, which was at once new and astonishing to me. All that he said threw greatly into the shade Cornelius Agrippa, Albertus Magnus, and Paracelsus, the lords of my imagination; but by some fatality the overthrow of these men disinclined me to pursue my accustomed studies. It seemed to me as if nothing would or could ever be known. All that had so long engaged my attention suddenly grew despicable. By one of those caprices of the mind which we are perhaps most subject to in early youth, I at once gave up my former occupations, set down natural history and all its progeny as a deformed and abortive creation, and entertained the greatest disdain for a would-be science which could never even step within the threshold of real knowledge. In this mood of mind I betook myself to the mathematics and the branches of study appertaining to that science as being built upon secure foundations, and so worthy of my consideration.

What is the main effect of the scene with the lightning strike on the reader?

It suggests the narrator has little understanding of the world.
It suggests the narrator is easily impressed with the power of nature.
It suggests the power of nature is beyond the control of the narrator.
It suggests the obsession with money that has taken hold of the narrator.
English
1 answer:
Temka [501]3 years ago
6 0

don't know for sure but i think the awnser is b

You might be interested in
Which sentence best describes the diction of a piece of writing?
ahrayia [7]

Answer:

B

Explanation:

The answer is B because diction means the authors choice of words

5 0
3 years ago
How does the author develop her central idea over the course of the passage?
kondor19780726 [428]

Answer:

1. environment

2. is a psychological pattern in which an individual doubts their skills, talents or accomplishments

3. receiving money in exchange for advertising through a post

]

Explanation:

4 0
3 years ago
Choose the sentence that is written correctly.
ioda
The answer is B because it puts a coma in the correct spot to pause between the first half of the sentence and the second. The others either randomly placed a period, using the wrong word choices, or made it a run on sentence. :)
3 0
3 years ago
The following lines conclude Richard Connell’s short story “The Most Dangerous Game”:
scoray [572]

Answer:

what's the question if your trying to just summarize that seems correct

5 0
3 years ago
Look before you leap
sergeinik [125]
If ur asking what this phrase means it means think before u act. for example think of what will happen to u after u jump off a bridge u will get hurt so don’t do it
6 0
2 years ago
Other questions:
  • What is Grendel’s perspective on the people he observes?
    5·1 answer
  • What are two antonyms for happiness?
    5·2 answers
  • Well, three or four months run along, and it was well into the winter now. I had been to school most all the time and could spel
    14·2 answers
  • Would someone help me and walk me through how to set up a blog
    8·1 answer
  • In the following sentence, what is the subject complement?. My neighbor is a newspaper reporter. A) My. B) Reporter. C) Neighbor
    9·2 answers
  • Do you think arguments help you process your own beliefs? Why or why not
    13·1 answer
  • Did Stalin adhere to the principles of communism, for which he claimed to stand?
    12·1 answer
  • My soup is cold, I like it hot/So please put it back into the pot. These lines form a ___.
    13·1 answer
  • In scene 1, Samson bites his thumb at Abram. He uses an aside to ask Gregory if the law is on their side. What is an aside?
    11·1 answer
  • 3. Cite text evidence of two times Lizabeth got destructive. Explain what you learn about her character from these
    5·1 answer
Add answer
Login
Not registered? Fast signup
Signup
Login Signup
Ask question!