I tried to tell him, but my older brother does not believe anything I say. For almost two weeks he was fascinated by a skateboar
ding video game and the unbelievable tricks mastered by his avatar. He thought real skateboarding would be a snap. When the package came, he ripped it open and lifted out his own specially designed maple wood skateboard. Out the door he flew, dropping the skateboard at the edge of our driveway and stepping on the skateboard's deck. Which sentence provides the BEST conclusion for this narrative paragraph?
A) Splat! Down went my big brother and his big ideas that real skateboarding would be easy.
B) "Watch this!" he shouted as he rolled away. I didn't see him again for almost two hours.
C) "Jump on!" invited my brother before he nudged the front board, making it spin 180 degrees.
D) Wow! He put one foot on the tail and one just behind the front bolts, mastering the board in minutes.
The sibling tries to warn their brother that skateboarding isn't as easy as it is in the video games, but the brother doesnt listen. It would make sense (to me) that the conclusion would be A.
Lack, want, need, require as verbs all stress the absence of something desirable, important, or necessary. Lack means to be without or to have less than a desirable quantity of something: to lack courage, sufficient money, enough
This is a great line and sequence from this play. If you haven't already seen the film version with Daniel Day-Lewis, please do so. Day-Lewis delivers the above line in such a way that it is the part that I remember the most.
At this point in the play, John Proctor has already admitted to the court that he committed adultery with Abigail Williams. In essence, he has intentionally hurt his reputation in the community. Many people looked up to Proctor as a good, strong, and moral man, but the adultery will taint that image.
The court asks John to sign his name and admit to witchcraft, and John refuses to let the court keep the paper that he signed. John is okay with his reputation being hurt because he was trying to save others, but he is not okay with his name (and his family's name) being tainted by...
