Answer:
- Disapproving of gossip and badmouthing, so the friend can feel uncomfortable and stop doing such harmful things
- Forming a study group/competing for better and higher grades
- Tutoring other students to share knowledge
- Encouragement to join different clubs with special interests (Debate, drama, computer science, etc...)
- Saving money to buy things/getting a job together.
Answer:
D. The speaker thinks he took the road less traveled, but is not sure if it has made any difference in his life.
Explanation:
Answering this question involves reading the entire poem to fully understand the context, while laying emphasis on lines 9-12. After which the answer can be seen in lines 18-20.
Henry David Thoreau was an American essayist, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, and historian, two of his greatest works are: "Resistance to Civil Government" (also known as "Civil Disobedience") and "The Mask of Anarchy". His ideals can be summarized by this statement: “the Government should not have more power than the bestowed by its citizens”.
Henry David Thoreau was even imprisoned for refusing to pay taxes in protest for the Mexican-American War and the slavery.
In this passage from Walden, Thoreau the analogy is:
He is comparing life to a moving train
Here we have the evidence to support the analogy:
Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature, and not be thrown off the track by every nutshell and mosquito's wing <u>that falls on the rails.</u>
