Answer:
The most likely audience for the story "Unusual Normality" seems to be the general public, the readers or anyone who comes through this story who have no idea of how lucky they are.
Explanation:
The short personal narrative "Unusual Normality" is based on the true childhood events in the narrator/ author Ishmael Beah. The narrative details his life as an orphan and a child soldier, then adopted in America where he had a chance in living a new life away from the war-torn life in his native Sierra Leone.
Though the whole story is more or less directed at the people he met during his narration, be it the schoolmasters, or even his classmates and their parents, the intended audience seems to be the general public. He did not seem to particularly direct his story at anyone in particular. But as a whole, he is just narrating his life events and provide information about his life in Sierra Leone, so that those who think they know what hard life is may know the reality of his life and how lucky most people are to have a family and be checked upon by their parents. This is evident in his closing statements-
<em>"I wanted them to understand how lucky they were to have a mother, a father, grandparents, siblings, people who to them were annoyingly caring about them and calling them to make sure they were ok. I wanted them to understand also that it was extremely lucky for them to only play pretend war and never have to do the real thing and that this naive innocence that they have about the world was something that I could no longer have I did not have that capacity."</em>
Answer:
He once WAS a good leader.
Explanation:
He once be a good leader doesn't make sense at all, the only verb that could come to my head that would make any since was the word "was". I hope I'm correct, and I hope this helped!
I believe the correct answer is: approaching.
In this excerpt from the poem "Learning to Read" written
by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, the meaning of the word rising is approaching.
The subject of this poem is Aunt Chloe, representing all elderly former slaves
in order to convey the value of literacy to blacks during and after slavery as
a key to freedom. Aunt Chloe wants to learn to read in order to read the Bible,
and as she was approaching sixty years, she had to “hurry”. To achieve that:
"So I got a pair of glasses,
And straight to
work I went,
And never stopped till I could read
The hymns and
Testament.
Then I got a little cabin
A place to call my
own—
And I felt independent
As the queen upon
her throne."
I believe it’s “ortho” and “straight”
