Read the excerpt below from a room of one’s own by virginia woolf and answer the question that follows.

meanwhile his extraordinarily gifted sister, let us suppose, remained at home. she was as adventurous, as imaginative, as agog to see the world as he was. but she was not sent to school. she had no chance of learning grammar and logic, let alone of reading horace and virgil. she picked up a book now and then, one of her brother’s perhaps, and read a few pages. but then her parents came in and told her to mend the stockings or mind the stew and not moon about with books and papers. they would have spoken sharply but kindly, for they were substantial people who knew the conditions of life for a woman and loved their daughter—indeed, more likely than not she was the apple of her father’s eye. perhaps she scribbled some pages up in an apple loft on the sly, but was careful to hide them or set fire to them.

why is this “gifted sister” discouraged from reading and writing?

a. women were encouraged to exist in the “private sphere” of life
b. the family did not want shakespeare’s sister to leave as he did.

c. women who read and wrote too often were cast out of the home

d. the family wanted her to become a doctor, not a writer or an actor.

answer: a. the image doesn’t give relevant information .

explanation: they’re clearly talking about bees in the bullet points, the picture shows a man doing what ? holding paper, its ot relevant.

choice 2 i like that prompt better.

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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"?

no plagarism

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