Why does Cherry Valance ask Ponyboy if he can see the sunset from his house? She wants to prove that she is superior to the greasers because she notices such things.

She has fallen in love with Ponyboy and wants to meet him and watch the sun set.

She wants to make him angry by talking down to him.

She wants to show him that they have something in common after all.

How are the themes from roosevelt's introduction to his address and the excerpt from king's letter similar? click here to read "letter from a birmingham jail."

Which three lines in this expert from anita desai’s games of twilight clearly show an omniscient narrator

Read the excerpt from the poem "growing up italian" by maria mazziotti gillan and answer the question that follows. when i was a little girl, i thought everyone was italian, and that was good. we visted our aunts and uncles, and they visted us. the italian language smooth and sweet in my mouth. in kindergarten, english words fell on me, thick and sharp as hail. i grew silent, the italian word balanced on the edge of my tongue and the english word, lost during the first moment of every question. source: gillan, maria mazziotti. "growing up italian." poetrymagazine.com. poetry magazine, n.d. web. 30 mar. 2011. what is the tone of this poem? what does the tone reveal about the speaker of the poem and the conflict she faces? based on this excerpt, what can you predict about the theme of the poem?