Answer:
The only good thing he did was to come up with a secret plan for his friend, Herbert, to get a job.
Explanation:
"Great Expectations" is a book written by Charles Dickens and tells the story of Pip, an apprentice blacksmith, orphan and poor boy who is constantly mistreated by his sister. One day, Pip receives a mysterious inheritance, which makes him very rich. He is full of high expectations of what the money will provide him, however, during this new life, he is very selfish and resentful. However, Pip recognizes his mistakes and tries to become a better person as he becomes wiser. When he reflects on everything he has done, he recognizes that the only good thing he has done is to help Herbert find a job. Pip made a plan for Herbert to be hired, unaware of Pip's help, thinking he had gotten a job with his own merits.
The sentence that show Dexter’s interest in Judy Jones
has more to do with her beauty than her personality in this excerpt from F.
Scott Fitzgerald's "Winter Dreams" is Dexter surrendered a part of
himself to the most direct and unprincipled personality with which he had ever
come in contact.
Answer:
1. Beowulf sets out for his journey for Daneland.
2. Hrothgar welcomes Beowulf.
3. Beowulf waits for Grendel to attack Heorot.
4. Beowulf succeeds in defeating Grendel by decapitating him.
5. Beowulf fights with Grendel's mother.
6. Beowulf sets out for his Geatish homeland.
7. Beowulf sets out for his fight with the dragon.
Explanation:
Upon Hrothgar's requiest, Beowulf travels to Daneland to help the king get rid of the terrible monster named Grendel. The night after meeting with Hrothgar, Beowulf and his men wait for Grendel to arrive, after which he kills him with his bare hands. When Grendel's mother learned of his death, she fights Beowulf as an act of revenge and dies by his hand. Feasting ensues after which Beowulf and his men return to their home of Geat.
Years after these events, Beowulf becomes king in Geatland and has to defend his kingdom against a dragon who ultimately manages to defeat him in his old age.
The poem is about:
B. People should appreciate every moment because some opportunities may never come again.
Explanation:
The poem fondly remembers the days of childhood that one could approach without any care for the future and enjoy the life as it was
This is something that they cannot do as adults but can only be nostalgia to for a time when they could have lived like that.
This is evident in the following lines:
There are days we live
as if death were nowhere
in the background; from joy
to joy to joy, from wing to wing
The days being described here are the ones of childhood and the tone is one of remembrance and sweet nostalgia, and not of dejection at any rate.
