The social context that is represented in “The Outsiders”, is relevant to its time, as the author, Susan Eloise Hinton, herself faced social degradation in her high school class.
<u>Explanation:</u>
The novel is about the clashes between the lesser privileged section of the community and the higher orders of the community. The clashes are about the superiority of each section of society and the rules that govern the same.
It is also about friendships made and broken for the fear of being hurt or being let down, about love and fear between the two classes, and finally about how at the end of all, it does not make sense to maintain so much of enemy as each person differs in their circumstances.
The author is young and a female faced similar clashes in her times at the time of writing her book. She was also asked to change her name to be gender-neutral to appeal more to the crowd.
These pointer show and reflect the relevance of the marginalized groups of the contextual times.
Answer:
The beautiful <u>unicorn</u> lived in total <u>solitude</u>. Because of her <u>solo</u> existence, she found life to be quite <u>monotonous</u>. She even caught herself at times giving a <u>monologue</u> of encouragement that no one else would hear. At times, it seemed as if her only comfort was the <u>solar</u> energy from above. One day, an incredibly <u>unique</u> thing occurred. Three unicorns whom she had never met appeared in her clearing. Although their voices were rather <u>monotone</u>, they spoke in perfect <u>unison</u>. They said they had come to <u>unify</u> all the unicorns of the forest and that none should be alone. Happily, she joined their group and galloped to her new home.
Answer:
a sentence that contains a misplaced modifer
Explanation:
the sentence contains a misplaced/dangling modifier. the phrase, <em>sailing into the harbor, </em>modifies something unclearly stated in the sentence.
An adjective clause is a type of clause that also contains a subject and a verb, but functions to describe a noun. This clause is often introduced by pronouns such as whom, who, that, which and the adverb where, when and why. In the given sentence above, the adjective clause is, "who received a good grade". This clause describes the noun "student".