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(This isn't mine, these were two somewhat essays I found and put together, changing a few words. Depending on your grade level and level of writing change around the words to make it as if you wrote it.)
Throughout Alice Walker's literary works she uses her characters and her stories to help show the strength of women as they overcome the abuses men and society place on them. Walker shows this theme through her diction, literary devices, and imagery. These women have suffered physical and verbal abuse from men and from society. They have been discriminated against for the color of their skin and also for being females in a male-dominated society. Walker uses this theme to comment on social injustices during that time. Not only are blacks considered to be the lowest in society, but women are even lower than black men. Walker comments on the mistreatment women deal with, they are used to sex and pleasure, raising children, keeping the house, farming the land, cooking meals, and are also punching bags for men. Women were expected to do what they were told and keep quiet. They were meant to be seen working but never heard. Women did not have a voice during this period in society, but Walker showed the reader what women really wanted to say during their lives. This story is a prime example of how women are oppressed by men in this society and far from discussing their strength and bravery it shows how they just become pedestals for the men in their lives and useful only to ride like kids riding a wooden rocking horse until the men are satisfied.
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Incomplete question. However, here's the clearly written/completed question;
The dates listed in the works cited page indicate:
a. important years in Mandela’s life.
eventful years in the author’s life.
b. years in which the sources were published.
c. years in which the student conducted research.
Answer:
<u>b. years in which the sources were published.</u>
<u>Explanation:</u>
Remember, this is a <em><u>biography</u></em> written by someone to explain the life story of another, in this case Nelson Mandela.
Therefore, inorder for the information to be verifiable, it is quite important that the years in which the sources of the information that led to the published work on Mandela's life be mentioned.
Purpose of historical fiction I’d say A
Answer:
I would describe the pace of the events in the passage slow but not in a bad way.
The word that best describes the mood in the passage is exciting because exciting means interesting and full of action, especially when you do not know what is going to happen next. an exciting story of adventure in a story.
An epic hero has several characteristics such as being of noble birth and humility. Ulysses's characteristics mentioned are exemplified by different events in Homer's Odyssey.
a. "Ulysses conceives a plan to blind Cyclops" is an example of hero's characteristic of being braver and smarter than a typical man. As an intelligent man, Ulysses comes up with a plan that no one else could think of to defeat Cyclops.
b. "Ulysses shouts out his name to the Cyclops while leaving the island" exemplifies how Ulysses possesses human frailties and flaws.
c. "Jove orders Calypso to allow Ulysses to continue on his journey home" is an example of how a hero receives help from supernatural friends. Jove's help Ulysses contributes to his characterization of epic hero.
d. "Neptune raises storms to throw Ulysses's ship off course" is an example of how an epic hero faces obstacles set by supernatural foes, in this case, Neptuno.
