Read the following passage from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad: Once, I remember, we came upon a man-of-war anchored off
the coast. There wasn't even a shed there, and she was
shelling the bush. It appears the French had one of their wars
going on thereabouts. Her ensign dropped limp like a rag; the
muzzles of the long six-inch guns stuck out all over the low
hull; the greasy, slimy swell swung her up lazily and let her
down, swaying her thin masts. In the empty immensity of
earth, sky, and water, there she was incomprehensible, firing
into a continent. Pop, would go one of the six-inch guns, a
small flame would dart and vanish, a little white smoke would
disappear, a tiny projectile would give a feeble screech-and
nothing happened. Nothing could happen. There was a touch
of insanity in the proceeding, a sense of lugubrious drollery in
the sight, and it was not dissipated by somebody on board
assuring me earnestly there was a camp of natives-he called
them enemies!-hidden out of sight somewhere.
What is the main purpose of the passage? Write a short argument to answer the question Develop your
ideas by analyzing specific details from the passage. You are writing an argument, so be careful to
include a clear thesis and to respond to at least one counter-argument.

is there an image you meant to add?

explanation:

me before you gives us insight of life meaning in unique way. it answers question about what kind of life you want and people’s struggle to be in the ideal condition of worth living. the author, jojo moyes, was intrigued by the case of daniel james who persuaded to end his life after suffering for years.

it begins with louisa clark, a girl with boring life, lose her job at the café and start to stand on her feet by applying job as a private carer of disable man. the near location and the money they offer push her to come to the castle where the interview conducted. she was doubted by camilla traynor, a mother of quadriplegic man, with her inexperience but somehow, she is fully gain employed by camilla and her husband, steven traynor.

on the other hand, will traynor, the disable man louisa take care of, is not an easy man to catch. he has sharp comments with everything she has done and seems unreachable. as time passed by, will become more open to louisa and they start to communicate better. that is until will has his sister, georgina, visited.

brainliest .

the hunger games, written by  suzanne collins, is fiction in the young adult genre, which is not my age group, but i found myself unable to put it down. its combination of nerve-racking tension, thrilling action, and engaging love story kept me up until the wee hours. i was surprised at how completely engrossing the plot was. like  brave new world, this story is set in a future where the government oppresses its people, but the book also borrows ideas from the greek myth of theseus and the minotaur.

divided into 12 districts, ruled by an oppressive government located at the  capitol. katniss everdeen, a 16-year-old girl from district 12, takes her younger sister’s place as one of 24 “tributes” selected every year to participate in the hunger games at the capitol.

while i found this book absolutely enthralling, i was surprised it was aimed at an audience of young adults. it seems extremely intense for anyone younger than 16 or 17. for example, there is a scene where one young tribute is slowly eaten alive by wolf-like creatures all night long, and katniss has to finally throw a weapon at him to end his misery. i found this a little too disturbing when i considered the age of the character.

the intensity of the action was something one would find in a more mature book, but the age of the characters and the simplicity of the prose were aimed at a much younger audience. in addition, this book was written in present tense, which i found annoying, but that’s more of a personal preference than a stylistic fault. it was also edited somewhat poorly, but that rarely distracted from the plot. for example, the author often spoke in sentence fragments to describe how katniss felt, which might have been an attempt to reflect on her thought process, but i found it disorienting to read a lot of really short sentences all together. it would have been better to vary the sentence length on occasion, but the story was still coherently.

overall,  the hunger games  was an excellent, enthralling read that i highly recommend. if it was more clearly marked for older teens, it would have been better, but it was a fantastic book with a wonderfully creative plot.

happy to .

pls mark as brainliest.

femininity is conveyed through bernice's personality. she doesn't act how the other girls act and everyone thinks she is weird. she learns how to act in a way that was considered femininely appropriate at the time. she becomes so popular but her attempts to be liked end up backfiring when she is pressured into bobbing her hair. the author wrote that bernice cut off her cousin's hair in revenge for tricking her to cut her hair. this was the authors way of trying to change the way feminine is defined and the way women are expected to act.