Answer:
As described on the poem, the car's driver refers the individual who caused him to stop his car as an "old man". Therefore, it is implied the driver is much younger than that individual.
Elderly people are characterized as wise beings, given the broader amount of experience they have gained throughout their lifetime - produced by their longer primacy on Earth. Humans shape their behaviour as they age up, thus, elders think very differently than younger generations. In the case of the poem, the old man holds stronger moral values towards the toads than does the driver - creating a misunderstanding between the characters.
Explanation:
What are the "two opposing forces: King discusses in this section? How does King's discussion of these two forces serve his purpose? King discusses the force of complacency and the force of bitterness and hatred to show how oppression has affected the block community.
Well I can answer what the word beast suggests about the text.
I think it is suggests that they don't know much about the people of Mars, the life forms that lived there so they are frightened of them. They know that they are intelligent, or were, but also acknowledge how the planet is nearly impossible to sustain life with all of its water frozen.
Hope that helped, I don't know much about English class in highschool yet so I wasn't sure exactly how to answer the question.
The desire to gain "invisible strength"
Amy Tan opens the story saying, "I was six when my mother taught me the art of invisible strength. It was a strategy
for winning arguments, respect from others, and eventually, though neither of us knew it
at the time, chess games." She talks about how gaining this "invisible strength" is one of the benefits of her chess playing. This isn't just mentioned in the first paragraph, but is shown again when she says, " I discovered
that for the whole game one must gather invisible strengths and see the endgame before
the game begins." She likes that chess has all these secrets that must never be told, and prides herself on learning these as she continues to get better.
Re-thinking the topic
hope this help and please inform me if I was right