CHOOSE ONE of the writing prompts below and write TWO well-developed paragraphs answering the guiding questions from the prompt. Be SURE to reference the novel’s SPECIFIC details so that I can tell you read. Without SPECIFIC references to the book, you may not get all of your points. DO NOT SUMMARIZE the novel.(Lord of the Flies) 1. Choose one character from your novel and analyze the following questions: · What is it that they want? · Is this different than what they need to become a happy, fulfilled person? · What are the obstacles that stand in their way of what they want? · How do they try to overcome those obstacles? · What is the end result of their trying to become “fulfilled”? 2. Choose an object—not a person—from your book. It should be something that seemed especially resonant or important to the story. Then, answer the following questions about the object: · Why did it seem so important? · What about the way it was described or the way characters interacted with the object made it seem so important? · How was the object used in the novel to portray any significance? 3. Any creative work is ultimately influenced by the historical and cultural context of the time it was written (for example, a Holocaust novel being written by a survivor of this event). · Describe how historical/personal events affected your interpretation of the plot. · What specific message do you think the author meant for the novel to carry for the people of the time? · What message did you take away from reading the novel?

id say it means hes fearful and/or cautious

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1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)

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themes and meanings

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there are two central themes in  the miracle worker: that the human spirit can triumph over even the most daunting of disabilities and that a dedicated teacher can transform the lives of those with whom he or she comes into contact. these inspirational themes have long been personified in the widely known true-life relationship between helen keller and annie sullivan, but  the miracle worker  also dramatizes collateral issues that extend beyond the particular case. underlying helen’s process of learning basic principles of what annie terms “obedience” (decorum, etiquette, and hygiene), there are more universal lessons of self-governance—the inculcation of self-restraint instead of willfulness, the development of self-discipline instead of self-indulgence. only when these lessons have been mastered can helen begin to acquire language—which, annie says, “is to the mind more than light is to the eye.”

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