Read the following excerpt from “the medicine bag” by virginia driving hawk sneve and answer the question that follows.

my kid sister cheryl and i always bragged about our sioux grandpa, joe iron shell. our friends, who had always lived in the city and only knew about indians from movies and tv, were impressed by our stories. maybe we exaggerated and made grandpa and the reservation sound glamorous, but when we’d return home to iowa after our yearly summer visit to grandpa, we always had some exciting tale to tell.

we always had some authentic sioux article to show our listeners. one year cheryl had new moccasins that grandpa had made. on another visit he gave me a small, round, flat rawhide drum which was decorated with a painting of a warrior riding a horse. he taught me a real sioux chant to sing while i beat the drum with a leather-covered stick that had a feather on the end. man that really made an impression.

which of the following is the best inference about the narrator based on this passage?
a.
the narrator is from the city and does not understand sioux culture.
b.
the narrator learned about “indians” from watching tv.
c.
the narrator likes to tell lies.
d.
the narrator likes to show off and impress his friends.

explanation:

you only need simple sentences to answer this. just answer these questions.

what do you think annie thinks of the mother? do you think annie believes the mother is a fit mother for helen.

what about the father? what would annie think of him? she might not like him, but does she respect him.

how about the son? would annie think he is the only voice of sanity in an insane place?

what about helen herself? this is the key question. how does she see helen? what do you suppose she thought her first job was going to be.

these aren't hard questions. just state the obvious. annie is not that well educated: she just knows what she has to do. write it that way.

you can do it if you've read the book or seen the play or movie.

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themes and meanings

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there are two central themes in  the miracle worker: that the human spirit can triumph over even the most daunting of disabilities and that a dedicated teacher can transform the lives of those with whom he or she comes into contact. these inspirational themes have long been personified in the widely known true-life relationship between helen keller and annie sullivan, but  the miracle worker  also dramatizes collateral issues that extend beyond the particular case. underlying helen’s process of learning basic principles of what annie terms “obedience” (decorum, etiquette, and hygiene), there are more universal lessons of self-governance—the inculcation of self-restraint instead of willfulness, the development of self-discipline instead of self-indulgence. only when these lessons have been mastered can helen begin to acquire language—which, annie says, “is to the mind more than light is to the eye.”