read the excerpt from infinite jest.
i cannot make myself understood. "i am not just a jock," i say slowly. distinctly. "my transcript for the last year miç
have been dickied a bit, maybe, but that was to get me over a rough spot. the grades prior to that are de moi." my
eyes are closed; the room is silent. "i cannot make myself understood, now." i am speaking slowly and distinctly.
“call it something i ate."
which statement best says how wallace lapplores the conflict between personal and societal realities?
wallace uses objective facts to show the conflict that can occur when people are dishonest about their pasts.
wallace uses characters actions to show the conflict that can occur between society and people who act in nonconforn
ways.
wallace uses descriptions to show the conflict that can occur when people are placed in unnatural settings.
wallace uses dialogue to show the conflict that can occur between inner perceptions of self and outside perceptions of
self.

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.’”