This question refers to the story "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been" by Joyce Carol Oates.
For the most part, Connie is a typical teenager of her time in this story. We learn that Connie is worried about the things that most teenagers worry about. She is concerned about being beautiful, and well-liked by boys. However, there is some individuality to Connie as well. We learn that she is a lot more vain than most people, and she takes enormous pleasure in her beauty. We also learn that Connie is dishonest, and she adopts different attitudes and personalities at home and elsewhere. The combination of these characteristics make Connie an individual, three-dimensional character.
Answer:
Now, something had been happening there a little before, which I did not know anything about until a good many days afterwards, but I will tell you about it now. Those two old brothers had been having a pretty hot argument a couple of days before, and had ended by agreeing to decide it by a bet, which is the English way of settling everything.
Explanation:
<em>Satire is the use of humor or irony in one's figure of speech in order to criticize the characteristics or to ridicule or expose a person's actions especially in political scenes.</em> Mark Twain, in his "The The £1,000,000 Bank-Note" tells of an occurrence-
<em>Now, something had been happening there a little before, which I did not know anything about until a good many days afterwards, but I will tell you about it now. Those two old brothers had been having a pretty hot argument a couple of days before, and had ended by agreeing to decide it by a bet, which is the English way of settling everything.</em>
This is a satire in that it criticizes and ridicules the efforts of the two brothers in settling their "<em>hot argument</em>' by betting, which according to him, "is the English way of settling everything".
Answer:
Fixed mindset. The sentence shows a fixed mindset because the person speaking has a locked in position and isn't willing to chance their mind. A person with a fixed mindset isn't going to want to change their opinion, and focuses on the negative. If this person had a growth mindset, they would be looking for some common ground they both have, and would acklowlage that while they have lots of different likes, they have at least SOME middle ground.
