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Both “Silky” Bob in “After Twenty Years” and Tessie in “The Lottery” face threats to their lives or freedom. Compare and contras

Radda [10]

Bob and Tessie's personas may me considered very different, as Bob seems a person that is very proud of his success and Tessie looks like a simple person, acting unpretentious. Their behavior can be based and figured out by the following paragraphs:

In "After Twenty Years"

“You were successful in the West, weren’t you?” asked the cop.

“I surely was! I hope Jimmy has done half as well. He was a slow

mover. I’ve had to fight for my success. In New York a man doesn’t

change much. In the West you learn how to fight for what you get.”

In "The Lottery"

"Clean forgot what day it was," she (Tessie) said to Mrs. Delacroix, who stood next to her, and they both laughed softly.

"Thought my old man was out back stacking wood," Mrs. Hutchinson went on. "and then I looked out the window and the kids was gone, and then I remembered it was the twenty-seventh and came a-running." She dried her hands on her apron, and Mrs. Delacroix said, "You're in time, though. They're still talking away up there."

The difference of Bob and Tessie's situation was that Bob had his freedom threatened, as he was arrested for committing a crime, but instead of being immediately arrested, he has the opportunity to meet his friend (even if by this time he doesn't know the first police man is his friend) and his friend has mercy on him, calling other man to do the arrest ; Tessie, on the other hand, has been the "winner" of a "death lottery" in which with no crimes or bad attitudes she has been chosen out of luck to a death sentence. Immediately, the city, which at first seem so friendly, has no mercy at all and even her family engage on the stoning.

Bob feels surprised, as he discovers that his old friend does not look the same person he made the appointment 20 years before; That can be inferred in these excerpt of the final paragraphs:

" The man of the West stopped suddenly and pulled his arm away.

"You're not Jimmy Wells!", he said, "Twenty years is a long time, but not long enough to change the shape of a man's nose!" "

As for Tessie, the feeling she has is the feeling of being wronged, as if the whole lottery has been unjust and she is not supposed to be the one who's the "winner". This feeling starts when her family has been drawn from the black box of papers:

"People began to look around to see the Hutchinsons. Bill Hutchinson was standing quiet, staring down at the paper in his hand. Suddenly. Tessie Hutchinson shouted to Mr. Summers. "You didn't give him time enough to take any paper he wanted. I saw you. It wasn't fair!" "

And she continuously feels the situation more unfair as she draws the paper with the black spot and finally prepares herself for the popular stoning.

I hope you may be able to fill in your chart with these informations!

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which of the following words contains both a prefix and a suffix adhere reformat shorten. repairable thanks

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Answer:

reformat

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Yo? what’s the question answer bro

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We haven’t read the story .

step by step explanation:

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There was a raging storm. It was in the forest. Rain fell. Leaves rustled as the wind swept through the trees. Squirrels hid as

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Answer:

Deep in the forest, a storm was raging.

Explanation:

The combination of sentences helps a writer to take more than one short sentences and form one long sentence that is readable and grammatically correct. The learning skills help students in enhancing their knowledge. To combine sentences, it is a short term practice session that a student needs to study to get the insight and necessary procedure on how to formulate a sentence.

It is essential; for teachers to guide students on how to combine sentences to determine the crucial phrases that reused when forming a single sentence from multiple ones.

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A hero is not always a tragic hero. Read Aristotle's classical definition of a tragic

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AThe first Aristotle’s criterion of the tragic hero requires that the character must be noble or a man of high status. In that sense, as described by Achebe, “Okonkwo was well known throughout the nine villages and even beyond. His fame rested on solid personal achievements” (Achebe, 3). Starting as a sharecropper with no inheritance from his father, Okonkwo works very hard and makes his way to a wealthy and respected man of titles in Umuofia. From his hard work, Okonkwo has 3 wives with many children, a large compound with obi for each of his wives and a large stock of yams. Okonkwo earns himself respect from people both inside his clan and outside his clan through many of his achievements. When he is a young man of eighteen, he brings honor to his village by throwing the Amalinze the Cat, a wrestler who is undefeated for 7 years. In addition, Okonkwo is one of the nine Egwugwu, a respected judge in the community who is believed to be the spirit of the ancestor. Furthermore, Okonkwo is also chosen by his village to be their representative to negotiate with Mbaino village about the murderer of an Umuofia girl in Mbaino market. With ease, Okonkwo successfully brings back a boy and a virgin as compensation and ends the conflict peacefully, without any confrontation.

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