"To avoid arousing unnecessary talk, he took from the table the writing in which the millions were renounced, and when he got home locked it up in the fireproof safe."
Answer:
Winik effectively uses the techniques of repetition and parallel structure in a line that dramatically charts Booth's mental descent. Find and write down the line.
The line is:
Still, there is no denying that for Booth, hate became preoccupation, preoccupation became fixation, and fixation became fanaticism.
Explanation:
Repetition and parallel structure are both stylistic devices used to develop the story following the mood provided by the author to describe his or her ideas in their ultimate level. Now, Repetition is the stylistic device that establishes an order of equal importance to all the clauses provided by starting them with the same word or statement. A parallel structure is a stylistic device that uses the same pattern of words to provide the same level of importance to them. In our case, we can observe the pattern that establishes the relationships and the repeated words.
Answer: The way the reader knew that the flower girl was intelligent is that:
A) She is smart enough to know what things cost and how a gentleman should treat a guest.
Explanation: The dialect of the flower girl is not a criteria for intelligence but since she could effectively know the cost of things and how a gentleman should treat a guest, she could be attributed as an intelligent person.
In Flowers for Algernon, Charlie and Algernon are both connected. Algernon was the first to "become smart," and Charlie followed. The reader knows from the beginning that their fates are intertwined; what happens to Algernon happens, at some point, to Charlie.
Algernon and Charlie both had their intelligence increased, and both became abnormally intelligent. Algernon and Charlie enjoy a bond that is both a deep connection and a symbolic relationship. In a literary sense, Algernon symbolizes Charlie.
As Charlie becomes smarter, he sees the connection as well. He understands that Algernon's behavior foreshadows his own fate. Therefore, when Algernon's behavior alters, Charlie knows that it is more than likely to happen to him as well. Thankfully, Charlie is so smart at this point that he is in a position to try and delay any changes from happening to himself. That's why he begins to work so intensely. With his great mind, Charlie is attempting to find any way he can to stop the changes from occurring within his own mind.
Sadly, of course, Charlie learns that it is not possible. His great intelligence could not save him from his fate, a fate that mirrors that of Algernon. Both were allowed only a brief moment of glory, despite the best efforts of those who tried to make this brief moment last.
