Read the excerpt from "let bindi have the limelight." as to whether she felt like touring and performing even as she mourned her dad, it indeed seemed there was nothing she felt like doing more. if anything, she indicated, thoughts of her father only drove her. "i think about him just looking at me," she said on good morning america. "like at the dinner table and stuff, he used to say, 'oh, bindi, i'm so proud of you, good job, well done.' it was really nice." readers would most likely connect this excerpt to their lives by understanding the effort it takes to protect animals. relating to wanting to make their parents proud. understanding the difficulty of touring the world. relating to pushing themselves to act happy.

Read the excerpt below from the poem "exile" by julia alvarez and answer the question that follows. i let myself lie back in deep waters, my arms out like jesus' on his cross, and instead of sinking down like i'd always done, magically, that night, i could stay up, floating out past the driveway, past the gates, in the black ford, papi grim at the wheel, winding through the back roads, stroke by difficult stroke, out on the highway, heading toward the coast. which literary device is used in the comparison between the speaker's experience of fleeing the country and floating in the ocean? i let myself lie back in deep waters, my arms out like jesus' on his cross, and instead of sinking down like i'd always done, magically, that night, i could stay up, extended metaphor symbolism simile theme