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Walton’s letters to his sister form a frame around the main narrative, Victor Frankenstein’s tragic story. Walton captains a North Pole–bound ship that gets trapped between sheets of ice. While waiting for the ice to thaw, he and his crew pick up Victor, weak and emaciated from his long chase after the monster. Victor recovers somewhat, tells Walton the story of his life, and then dies. Walton laments the death of a man with whom he felt a strong, meaningful friendship beginning to form.
Walton functions as the conduit through which the reader hears the story of Victor and his monster. However, he also plays a role that parallels Victor’s in many ways. Like Victor, Walton is an explorer, chasing after that “country of eternal light”—unpossessed knowledge. Victor’s influence on him is paradoxical: one moment he exhorts Walton’s almost-mutinous men to stay the path courageously, regardless of danger; the next, he serves as an abject example of the dangers of heedless scientific ambition. In his ultimate decision to terminate his treacherous pursuit, Walton serves as a foil (someone whose traits or actions contrast with, and thereby highlight, those of another character) to Victor, either not obsessive enough to risk almost-certain death or not courageous enough to allow his passion to drive him.
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are epic poems written hundreds of years ago.
<em>or, and?</em>
tell the story of Grendel’s encounters with humans.
Both B and D are correct forms - the last comma is optional.
I would use probably use a comma here because the brothers' tasks are so diverse. However, I am not forced to use it - it is optional.
I would not use it here:
I am considering a HP, Dell and Lenovo as possibilities for my next computer.
(Because they are not diverse - they are all brands of computers).
What's wrong with A - It sound as if your brothers dropped the dishes as they took them out of the dishwasher and had to clean up all those broken washed dishes.
C is wrong because of the unecessary common after the "and".
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Firstly, the main idea of a paragraph is generally its first sentence (the topic sentence). If not, first identify the topic of the paragraph. Next, look for what claim the supporting details are pointing towards.
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Money and goods
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In the passage, the word <em>track</em> is used to describe money and goods, because the quote says<em> all this, </em>which means there's more than one good (not the automobile for example) and also because then it says how much money they got, eight dollars. Before the excerpt given, it is also described that the goods are clothes.
