In all my years at shawshank, there have been less than ten men whom i believed when they told me they were innocent. andy dufresne was one of them, although i only became convinced of his innocence over a period of years. if i had been on the jury that heard his case in portland superior court over six stormy weeks in 1947-48, i would have voted to convinct, too. source: king, stephen. "rita hayworth and shawshank redemption." different seasons. new york: penguin group, 1982. google books. web. 16 may 2011. how does the point of view in the excerpt affect the characterization in the text? characterization emphasizes action and dialogue through third-person point of view. characterization occurs through the point of view of an all-seeing narrator who interprets and makes judgments. characterization occurs through the potentially biased point of view of one character. the excerpt is lacking any definite point of view because the narrator is not identified.

Best answer gets brainliest and 80 which poem is more effective and why? "on imagination" or "patterns"

Correct the sentence below: the pizza delivery boy was neither early nor late he was right on time. a: correct as it is b: the pizza delivery boy was neither early nor late, he was right on time. c: the pizza delivery boy was neither early nor late; and he was right on time. d: the pizza delivery boy was neither early nor late: he was right on time.

Javier is writing a literary analysis of the secret garden. read this introduction to his essay. frances burnett’s “the secret garden” explores the challenges of a sickly, self-centered little girl named mary lennox. after mary’s parents die of cholera, she moves from india to england to live at her uncle’s estate in yorkshire. while living at the old estate, mary discovers an abandoned garden that belonged to her deceased aunt. tending to the neglected garden brings mary joy, and her health improves. through mary’s transformation, burnett presents nature as a symbol of rebirth and healing. which piece of textual evidence should javier use to support the claim made in the introduction? a. “‘it’s in the garden no one can go into,’ she said to herself. ‘it’s the garden without a door. he lives in there. how i wish i could see what it is like! ’” b. “in india she had always felt hot and too languid to care much about anything. the fact was that the fresh wind from the moor had begun to blow the cobwebs out of her young brain and to waken her up a little.” c. “mary felt lonelier than ever when she knew she was no longer in the house. she went out into the garden as quickly as possible, and the first thing she did was to run round and round the fountain flower garden ten times.” d. “‘it isn’t a quite dead garden,’ she cried out softly to herself. ‘even if the roses are dead, there are other things alive.’”