The motif of marigolds is juxtaposed to the grim, dusty, crumbling landscape from the very beginning of the story. They are an isolated symbol of beauty, as opposed to all the mischief and squalor the characters live in. The moment Lizabeth and the other children throw rocks at the marigolds, "beheading" a couple of them, is the beginning of Lizabeth's maturation. The culmination is the moment she hears her father sobbing, goes out into the night and destroys the perfect flowers in a moment of powerless despair. Then she sees the old woman, Miss Lottie, and doesn't perceive her as a witch anymore. Miss Lottie is just an old, broken woman, incredibly sad because the only beauty she had managed to create and nurture is now destroyed. This image of the real Miss Lottie is juxtaposed to the image of her as an old witch that the children were afraid of. Actually, it is the same person; but Lizabeth is not the same little girl anymore. She suddenly grows up, realizing how the woman really feels, and she is finally able to identify and sympathize with her.
In this story, author's use of juxtaposition portrays the main character in great detail through the countless acts of character's realisation and analysis of her life. Lizabeth reflects that she had, “…a strange restlessness of body and of spirit, a feeling that something old and familiar was ending and something unknown and therefore terrifying was beginning" as she grew up and it scared her more and more. She regretted all the bad things she did as a child and the author's use of character vs self conflict created this suspense and showed how Lizabeth has changed through her experience.
Answer:
C.)It shows that she feels closest to her father but cannot talk to him like she writes in her diary.
Explanation:i got it right :)
C. To keep the reader's interest. Syntax is the structure of a sentence (how long it is and how it is punctuated). It does not really deal with the specific, individual words that an author chooses--so a, b and c would not be the answer because they deal with the actual words in the text.
The answers are as follows:
1.Percy confesses his ability to see Mrs Dodds to Grover
2.His mother tells him no details about his dad except for their similarity.
Explanation:
Percy throughout the first three chapters sees a character called Mrs Dodds whom no one else can see and he is confused as he treats her as his teacher and one day she confront him yo confess something that he has no idea what he has done.
He eventually tells his Mother bout the situation with Mrs Dodds and she in turn talks to him about his dad which he wanted to know but he does not get much in terms of his identity from her.
In the Odyssey, Eurycleia washes the feet of the beggar because A) the beggar reminds her of Odysseus, and she suspects that it is him.
In fact, it was him all along, pretending to be a beggar so that he could get closer to his wife Penelope.
