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The Supreme Ordeal is a "black moment" for the audience, as we are held in suspense and tension, not knowing if he will live or die. This is a critical moment in any story, an Ordeal in which the hero must die or appear to die so that she can be born
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“the story of a child's journey”
Explanation:
Answer:
1. Sentence 1
Explanation:
According to the given excerpt, the author describes how the US Supreme Court does not reflect the US population as it has been slow in fully integrating people of diverse races into the system and up till now has no Asian or Hispanic has been appointed as member of the court.
The main idea in the excerpt is sentence 1 because it gives the main idea that the US Supreme Court does not reflect the population, while the other sentences are supporting details.
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"The Wedding Gift" by Marlen Suyapa Bodden revolves around the life of a woman named Clarissa and her 'wedding gift' slave from her father. And one of the main themes in this story is that of slavery and how discriminatory or inferior the slaves were treated in the South parts of America.
Explanation:
Marlen Suyapa Bodden's "The Wedding Gift," tells the story of how a woman named Clarissa and her 'wedding gift slave "Sarah" who turned out to be her half-sister, a product of their father's secret sexual affair with his slave Emmeline. This story delves into the issue of slavery in the American South, the positions of slaves and their hardships and the issue of class/ belonging among different races, and also especially on the 'inferiority' of the female gender compared to the males.
<u>One dominant issue in the story is that of slavery</u>. This is seen in the lives, the different lives of the two sisters Clarissa and Sarah. While Clarissa, as a white woman, is an accepted daughter of Allen and have full access to her father's world, Sarah, on the other hand, is just a small slave girl who is passed on like a piece of property. She was given by Allen to Clarissa as a wedding gift, and when her husband divorced her, she remained a part of Clarissa's 'belongings' that she takes along with her wherever her life leads.
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Question 1:
Then Sally disappears with an older boy, and Esperanza waits for her by the red clowns. While she is waiting, a group of boys attacks Esperanza. She never describes exactly what happens, except that one boy forces her to kiss him and keeps saying “I love you, Spanish girl,” but it's implied that she was raped.
Question 2:
After being assaulted by a group of boys, Esperanza blames Sally for abandoning her and making her vulnerable. She also feels angry at Sally for misleading her about sex and romance.
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