Unlike Audrey, Wash didn't know that black kids were about to offer themselves up for arrest. He passed that spring doing what he'd done for the past six or seven years - hanging out in the woods with friends. He wasn't even going to school very often, much less to mass meetings. When he found out about the marches, he thought the students were crazy. "It was hard to come to grips with," he said. "We knew [the police] to be torturers, murderers . . . , and the idea of voluntarily submitting yourself to be taken away with them was just to us - we couldn't . . . " —We’ve Got a Job,
Cynthia Levinson

What does this passage explain that helps readers connect with Wash’s story?

Wash knew the police did not treat black people fairly, especially if they broke the law.
Wash wanted to spend his free time with his friends in the woods, like always.
Wash had to study to finish school, and marching was going to take away time.
Wash did not want to cause any trouble for his mother by breaking the law.

active voice: my father cut the tree.

passive voice: the tree was cut by my father.

active voice: people buy newspapers every day.

passive voice: newspapers are bought (by people) every day.

active voice: people have been using movies as political propaganda since world war ii.

passive voice: movies have been used as political propaganda since world war ii.

active voice: donna gave me my birthday present.

passive voice: i was given my birthday present (by donna). / my birthday present was given to me (by donna).

active voice: mom will leave the keys on the counter.

passive voice: the keys will be left (by mom) on the counter.

the words in parentheses are the agent of the passive voice and can be omitted when obvious, generic, or simply unnecessary.

answer: the sentence in the text that contains both the topic and the author's single most important idea about the topic

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english novelist and poet, the eldest of the three brontë sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels became classics of english literature.

she enlisted in school at roe head in january 1831, aged 14 years. she left the year after to teach her sisters, emily and anne, at home, returning in 1835 as a governess. in 1839 she undertook the role as governess for the sidgwick family, but left after a few months to return to haworth where the sisters opened a school, but failed to attract pupils. instead they turned to writing and they each first published in 1846 under the pseudonyms of currer, ellis and acton bell. her first novel the professor was rejected by publishers, her second novel jane eyre was published in 1847. the sisters admitted to their bell pseudonyms in 1848, and by the following year were celebrated in london literary circles.

brontë experienced the early deaths of all her siblings. she became pregnant shortly after her marriage in june 1854 but died on 31 march 1855, almost certainly from hyperemesis gravidarum, a complication of pregnancy which causes excessive nausea and vomiting.

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