Answer:
“The painter's face curdled with scorn "You think I'm proud of this daub?" he said. "You think this is my idea of what life looks like?"
"What's your idea of what life looks like?" said the orderly.
The painter gestured at a foul drop cloth. "There's a good picture of it," he said. "Frame that, and you'll have a picture a d*** sight more honest than this one.”
Explanation:
The painter does not view life as enjoyable in any way. He views it to be as bad as a foul cloth. He knows that there is so much chaos, and that he is living only to die. This leads him to taking his own life, rather then letting the government take it from him; he doesn't view life as a "worth it" affair
Answer:
The correct answer is: because she feels she deserved to marry a man above her class.
Explanation:
This story is sat in Paris, France sometime in the mid-1800s. It describes a woman called Mathilde, who is unhappy with her material status and she dreams of being rich.
One day, she receives an invitation for a ball and she becomes upset because she doesn't have a proper dress to wear. However, her husband decides to buy her a dress and spends all his savings, just to make her happy.
Mathilde doesn't appreciate what her husband did for her and she considers that she deserved to marry a man above her class.
The participle phrase in the above sentence is 'Enjoying her new flute.'
<em>The participle phrase</em> starts either with the present (dependably ending with -ing) or past (dependably ending with -ed)
The participle phrase includes the modifiers or objects to complete the thought of the sentence. For instance, in the above sentence 'enjoying' is in present and modifies the word 'new flute'. Therefore, the participle phrase acts as an adjective always, providing a description of the sentence,
This question is incomplete. Here is the complete question:
How does the detail of the children on the spirit’s legs contribute to the overall text?
A. They represent Ignorance and Want, which the spirit warns Scrooge to beware of.
B. They symbolize two of society’s ills which cling to Christmas: the desire to receive instead of to give, and the failure to acknowledge suffering.
C. They represent Ignorance and Want, two of Scrooge’s faults that hopefully have been corrected by the spirit’s visit.
D. The author likely includes these children to remind readers to care for those in need during Christmas time.
Answer:
The correct answer is option B. They symbolize two of society’s ills which cling to Christmas: the desire to receive instead of to give, and the failure to acknowledge suffering.
Explanation:
Undoubtedly two of the society's ills wich cling to Christmas is the desire to receive, and never think about those who have the least.
This is exactly what the children represent in the spirit's legs. Children with deprivation and poverty while others have everything, and still want more.
This story tells the life of a selfish and sullen man who changes his way of being during a cold Christmas due to the visit of three ghosts, and it is precisely about symbolizing this problem in society, and trying to change it.
