1.in the first line of 'to the doctor who treated the raped child and who felt despair' the poet asserts that he/she is speaking on 'behalf of us all' what does she mean? 2.the poem seems to move between contrasting settings. write a paragraph in which you quote and discuss examples of this and explain the effect of dowling's constructing her poem manner. 3.the word 'and' is repeated at the beginning of seven different lines in the poem. write a paragraph in which you account for this repetition and explain its effectiveness. you should identify and discuss short quotations from the poem to support answer. 4.what is the speaker trying to do in this poem and how is this achieved? discussa specific instances in the poem to support the answer

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assignment

analyzing characters

respond to the following questions in one paragraph for each. use specific examples from the text to support your responses.

1. there is a set of twins on the island named sam and eric. however, when describing them, golding regularly refers to them as samneric. how does this way of describing the twins relate to their behavior and the way that readers understand their characters? what examples of their behavior readers see that samneric is really the appropriate way to refer to them?

2. as the boys set out to search for the beast, ralph allows jack to lead the way, and he sinks to the back of the pack, " to have escaped responsibility for a time." what does this moment lead you to infer about ralph and about his feelings about being the group’s leader? what does this moment foreshadow?

3. while part of the party searching for the beast, simon realizes that the notion of the beast that the other boys have does not make sense. a beast sitting atop a mountain with claws, a beast who did not leave tracks, could have easily caught the twins. simon has a different picture of the beast: "there rose before his inward sight the picture of a human at once heroic and sick." how does this picture relate to the beast that samneric saw? how does it relate to what simon said earlier about the beast being "only us"?

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