The theme in a story is its underlying message, or 'big idea.' In other words, what critical belief about life is the author trying to say without actually coming right out and saying it in the writing of a novel, play, short story or poem?
Answer:
The heat and the monotony of the train make the children think the trip is boring.
Explanation:
'The Story-Teller' is a short story written by H. H. Munro (pen name Saki). The story is about a young man who tells a tale to a group of agitated children on the train with an imperfect ending.
<u>As the story begins, the readers find the characters traveling on a train on their way to Templecombe. The weather described by the author is hot and sultry. This setting of the story affects the three children, traveling with their aunt, become agitated due to boredom of the trip. Their agitation and boredome then turns into asking too many questions to their aunt, which leads the aunt to tell a tale to the children followed by the story by the young man</u>.
Thus, the correct answer that how the setting of te story at the beginning affected the characters is the it made children perceive the trip to be boring.
Therefore, correct option is the third one (C).
Answer:
The central idea of an essay or a speech, for example, is a declarative sentence that states the main topic to be developed throughout the work. The central idea often expresses a fact or an opinion. Then, the author moves on to developing the idea and supporting it with evidence and details. This author in particular is stating that women living during the Elizabethan era had difficult and suffocating lives. From this central idea, the author will explain why and how their lives were so hard.
Explanation:
Answer:
The narrator believed that she and her mother looked comical to the strangers.
Explanation:
"Funny in Farsi" is a memoir written by Firoozeh Dumas. The book deals with the author's moving to America from Iran and the suddden change of surroundings, culture, people, language etc.
Now, we can infer the author's attention in this sentence from it's context. She compares their visit to the stranger's house to a personal circus performance. To most people, visit to a circus is funny and entertaining, so Dumas concludes that was the way strangers felt to the sight of her and her mother due to different clothes, customs and a complete lack of basics of the language.
Plain Folks is an example of?
Answer : D
