Read the passage from "marriage is a private affair" by chinua achebe. in this excerpt, nnaemeka is the first to speak, and okeke speaks after him. "i can’t—we must—i mean it is impossible for me to marry nweke’s daughter.” "impossible? why? ” asked his father. "i don’t love her.” "nobody said you did. why should you? ” he asked. "marriage today is different . .” "look here, my son,” interrupted his father, "nothing is different. what one looks for in a wife are a good character and a christian background.” nnaemeka saw there was no hope along the present line of argument. how could the characters’ differing views of arranged marriage be analyzed from a historical perspective and from a feminist perspective? a historical perspective would focus on arranged marriage being part of the culture at the time the story is set. a feminist perspective would focus on how arranged marriages took choice away from women. a feminist perspective would focus on arranged marriage being part of the culture at the time the author wrote. a historical perspective would focus on how arranged marriages took choice away from women. a historical perspective would focus on how the story would be different if it were written by an author of a different gender. a feminist perspective would focus on how the characters interact. a feminist perspective would focus on the biography of the author. a historical perspective would focus on the power dynamics between characters.

The correct answer is A.

Historical perspectives take a look at the story's historical culture. Therefore, a historical perspective would focus on arranged marriage being part of the culture at the time the story is set. A historical perspective would not focus on the impact on women, the gender of the author, or power dynamics between characters.

Feminist perspectives analyze how the events (or characters) impact the women in the story. Therefore, a feminist perspective would focus on how arranged marriages took choice away from women. A feminist perspective would not focus on the culture as a whole (only its impact on women), and it would not focus on how the characters interact (although it would focus on how the characters impact women in the story). A feminist perspective would not focus on the author's biography at all.

For these reasons, the correct answer is the first one.

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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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