Answer:
Taken from the ending part of the short story "The Black cat" by Edgar Allen Poe, the lines tell of the alcoholic protagonist's happiness in finding that the cat responsible for the incidental murder of his wife is nowhere to be seen in his house anymore.
Explanation:
Edgar Allen Poe's short story "The Black Cat" tells the story of an unnamed protagonist who is an alcoholic. His drunken act of killing his pet cat Pluto and then later on even his accidental murder of his wife leads to the situation he is in the start of he story- convicted to death.
The given excerpt is form the ending part of the story where he had successfully walled in his wife's corpse. He could't find the cat, he second pet cat, who had been the initial cause of the act. The lines show just how relieved he was to see that he could no longer find "<em>the monster</em>" in is house. But with this admission, he seems to be implying that he was free of the moral obligations in he society in general. This speech gave him he all clear in the murderous act, but which will in fact, return to haunt him and bring him to justice.
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Answer:
1)
Which BEST analyzes the passage for the author's viewpoint on friendships and broadening cultural awareness?
A) The author seeks to persuade readers to make new friends and to eat a variety of foods from different cultures.
B) The author seeks to describe the similar experiences of different cultures and the danger of avoiding new friendships.
C) The author seeks to describe the positive experiences of two new friends and the potential for appreciation of different cultures.
Eliminate
D) The author seeks to describe the different experiences of two new friends and the problems of interaction with different cultures.
Explanation:
Answer:
A
Explanation:
Have been is the correct verb phrase; you cannot have an adverb, such as 'not' included in the verb phrase.
I haven't read the text, however this is a common technique used in literature in order to criticise society. In many texts with this intent, the author will associate humans with bacteria, animals or parasites to create an 'infected body politic' with a semantic field of sickness and disease. The overall motivation for this is to mock society or to highlight a particular flaw with humans.
