Urgent read the passage from a raisin in the sun. ruth: you know what i'm going to do soon as i get in that new house? which statement is the best summary of the theme in this passage? beneatha: what? o small pleasures bring joy to life. o people cannot cope without relaxing activities. o most people prefer to be alone. o danger is inevitable, even in a person's home. ruth: honey-i'm going to run me a tub of water up to (with her fingers practically up to her nostrils.) and i'm going to get in it-and i am going to sit and sit. and sit in that hot water and the first person who knocks to tell me to hurry up and come out- beneatha: gets shot at sunrise. ruth (laughing happily): you said it, sister!

Read the following excerpt from string by alice childress: maydelle. oh, look at you. if you had a nice suit perhapsnone of this would have happened.joe. l. v. got a nice suit, he got maybe forty nice suits andhe live in a pretty white house with a lawn in the front of it... but he cheatswhich statement best explains how the author uses symbolism in thisexcerpt? a. joe stands for the general turmoil that followed the years after thecivil rights act of 1964, which included riots and assassinations.b. with his combination of nice clothes and immoral behavior, l. v.represents the price some african americans paid in order toescape poverty.c. by describing l v.'s clothes in the same breath as his evilbehavior, joe points out that l. v. is only good on the outside, noton the insideod. the tension between joe and l. v. culminates in a physicalaltercation that is only broken up when the women in the playintervene.

Which is the best paraphrase of the text? the capability of a bicycle makes some people want to go very fast and others to go very slow. as long as you are careful, feel free to ride like the wind. when feeling brave on a bicycle you should ride fast, but when feeling afraid riding slow is wise. if you are unable to coast, it is pointless to even ride. if you’re going to ride a bicycle, you should throw caution to the wind and take over the road, swerving where you like and taking full advantage of your ride. it’s a real joy to be able to ride a bicycle, where you have the choice of going as fast or as slow as you like, using as much courage as you feel like using.

How did the language of the gettysburg address differ from the language in the secondary source about this speech?