Directions: The claim has been provided for you. This is someone’s opinion about the text which you may or may not agree with. Study the claim and decide how you would argue in defense of it, AND how you would challenge or qualify it. Cite 1-2 pieces of evidence from the play for each answer. Defend: I agree with the statement and here’s why.

Challenge: I disagree with the statement and here’s why.
Qualify: Here’s why I agree with the statement, but here’s why I disagree with it

Act III
Claim: “We burn a hot fire here. It melts down all concealment” (Miller 89). For each, there is a moment which decides who we will ultimately become, a crucible or test through fire. Throughout the play, John Proctor is the only character who goes through

Examine the imagery in these lines of the poem "the legend" by garrett hongo. he is asian, thai or vietnamese, and very skinny, dressed as one of the poor in rumpled suit pants and a plaid mackinaw, dingy and too large. he negotiates the slick of ice on the sidewalk by his car, opens the fairlane's back door, leans to place the laundry in, and turns, for an instant, toward the flurry of footsteps and cries of pedestrians as a boy—that's all he was— backs from the corner package store shooting a pistol, firing it, once, at the dumbfounded man who falls forward, grabbing at his chest. how does the imagery in these lines affect the reader’s experience of the poem? check all that apply. it creates a visual picture of the man. it conveys what the scene sounds like. it describes the actions of the boy. it reveals the poet’s opinion of the characters. it encourages readers to care for the characters. it shows the resolution of a conflict. it explains the reasons for the event.