Select two reasons the author likely describes Santha’s classmate in such detail in paragraph 9. The author wants to point out differences in Indian culture and English culture.

The author wants to provide a picture of an Indian girl assimilating to English mode of dress.

The author wants to show the commonalities between the English children and the Indian children.

The author wants to provide information about Indian and English friendships.

The author wants to point out differences between Indian schools and English schools.

The author wants to point out differences in Indian culture and English culture.

The author wants to provide a picture of an Indian girl assimilating to English mode of dress.

Explanation:

Below is an excerpt from paragraph 9 of the attached pdf:

"I suppose there were about a dozen Indian children in the school—which contained perhaps forty children in all—and four of them were in my class. They were all sitting at the back of the room, and I went to join them. I sat next to a small, solemn girl, who didn’t smile at me. She had long, glossy black braids and wore a cotton dress, but she still kept on her Indian jewelry—a gold chain around her neck, thin gold bracelets, and tiny ruby studs in her ears. Like most Indian children, she had a rim of black kohl around her eyes.

The cotton dress should have looked strange, but all I could think of was that I should ask my mother if I couldn’t wear a dress to school, too, instead of my Indian clothes."

autobiography of an ex-colored man is told from the first-person point of view of an unnamed male narrator. he starts his tale by stating that he is going to reveal the great secret of his life. he first takes the reader to his childhood in georgia where he was raised by a single mother. he was dissapointed in his own color.

gilgamesh is a hero by birth as the epic explains it. in the epic the birth is explained in the way which tells us that gilgamesh’s creation was made perfect by the contribution of various god and that signifies the goal in his life, which was to become a hero and save mankind. an example from the text says. "the glorious sun shamash bestowed upon him glory; adad the terrible god of storms bestowed upon him courage. the great gods perfected his magnificence beyond all others, terrible like the great wild bull. two thirds god they made him; one third man they made him." a man born with superhuman qualities and partly god is destined to be a hero.

the heroic deeds carried by him later in his life also prove the heroic character of gilgamesh. for example hi battle with the ultimate beast humbaba is a proof of his bravery and characteristic heroism. gilgamesh was warned about the beast as the text says about humbaba “whose roar is a flood, whose mouth is fire, whose breath is death". but with the superhuman strength gilgamesh did the job