Thomas merton said, "in an age where there is much talk about 'being yourself' i reserve to myself the right to forget about being myself, since in any case there is very little chance of my being anybody else. rather it seems to me that when one is too intent on 'being himself' he runs the risk of impersonating a shadow." analyze how both articles prove this to be either accurate or inaccurate

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 work would represent a change to the artistic medium of this original work?

Certain predictable elements of beowulf, such as the superhuman hero and the quest to defeat evil, are common to the form. a. story b. plot c. epic d. novel