Read the paragraph below. What is the paragraph’s main message? This weekend I got a chance to ride an elephant. It was something everyone should try. People in the U. S. are used to riding horses or ponies, but an elephant ride is unusual. Elephants are much bigger than horses--to get on, I had to climb a ladder. But even though I was up so high, I wasn’t scared at all. The elephant, Mimi, was gentle and moved slowly. Her back was so wide I wasn’t scared of falling off. When she walked, I was able to see a long way from her high back. It was a great experience.
Elephants are very large.
No one should ever ride an elephant.
Riding an elephant is a great experience.
The elephant was named Mimi.

a. googly eyed

explanation:

the term "googly eyed" just sounds humourous to us. : )

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assignment

analyzing characters

respond to the following questions in one paragraph for each. use specific examples from the text to support your responses.

1. there is a set of twins on the island named sam and eric. however, when describing them, golding regularly refers to them as samneric. how does this way of describing the twins relate to their behavior and the way that readers understand their characters? what examples of their behavior readers see that samneric is really the appropriate way to refer to them?

2. as the boys set out to search for the beast, ralph allows jack to lead the way, and he sinks to the back of the pack, " to have escaped responsibility for a time." what does this moment lead you to infer about ralph and about his feelings about being the group’s leader? what does this moment foreshadow?

3. while part of the party searching for the beast, simon realizes that the notion of the beast that the other boys have does not make sense. a beast sitting atop a mountain with claws, a beast who did not leave tracks, could have easily caught the twins. simon has a different picture of the beast: "there rose before his inward sight the picture of a human at once heroic and sick." how does this picture relate to the beast that samneric saw? how does it relate to what simon said earlier about the beast being "only us"?

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me

are you kidding? from that description of two mansions, you can't figure out which one is bleak and desolate? maybe you should consider looking those words up in a dictionary, if you don't know what they mean already.