the theme of [pick one: otherness, corruption, prejudice, superficiality, disillusion, suffering] runs throughout many of the texts this unit. choose a text from the unit and explain how it addresses the theme. include title/author and at least one direct quote.
"at the tourist centre in boston"
"no dogs bark"
"crossroads: a sad vaudeville,"

At the Tourist Centre in Boston.

I would either say otherness or suffering

Explanation:

"Whose dream is this, i would like to know:

Is this manufactured

hallucination, a cynical fiction, a lure

for export only?

He has a tone of longing and suffering. He seems curious of things that are going on around him.

Atwood uses meaningful language and imagery to establish a complex tone. It shifts perspective and perception.

"Unsuspecting"- leads up to the unexpected

"Blown up"- assertiveness and purity

"Glass"- gives a limited setting. someone looking in

I feel as if i just rambled on. Im not sure if that helped any.

"Crossroads: A Sad Vaudeville,"

Explanation:

The theme I choose is suffering. Crossroads: A Sad Vaudeville: In the play, the man and woman were longing to make an emotional and physical connection with each other, and later on, they both shared thier fears of being alone in the world. This addresses the theme of suffering, because they suffered their fears of beings alone in the world. The play was written by Carlos Solorzano in 1959. Direct quote: "The man was waiting for the woman at the train station, and he called her the 'special one to him'"

is it rising action, falling action, climax, or resolution? need answer also

the examples that saki used to represent satire through situational irony are options two (2) and five (5) inasmuch as the wolf thought that looking for a girl in the bushes could be as easy as hunting little pigs at the park, but it took him so much time to find the girl if it had not been not for a silly mistake. also, bertha would have survived to the wolf's hunt if she had not won those medals for goodness, which at the end they were what got her killed by making noise, so winning medals of goodness was not so good achievement, after all.