Wichita Mourning
David Matherne

Pipe organs—dusty and tarnished—

Bellowed the ancient song,
As movers carried the pews
For one last time.

Frozen branches—heavy with ice arms— 5
Couldn’t perform their dance,
As workmen shuffled inside
The worn-out floors.

Sally Richards—broken and mourning—
Watched while her father left, 10
As painters brought in their cans
For the first time.

Stained-glass windows—buckled and broken—
Surveyed commotion’s cause
As commerce won in the end 15
Yet one more time.

Reverend Richards—feeble and finished—
Cried as his exit was lost
On Christians who worshiped the dime;
A change of the times. 20

Read the passage on the left to answer the following questions:
1)
Sally Richards—broken and mourning—
Watched while her father left
Which dictionary definition of broken BEST applies to its use in lines 9 and 10 from the poem?
A) at rest
B) defeated
C) shattered
D) no longer working
2)
Imagine you are presenting this poem and need a visual aid to accompany your presentation. The visual aid should relate to the theme of the poem, the loss and destruction of this beautiful church.

Which visual aid would be MOST appropriate?
A) a road map of Wichita
B) pictures showing the businesses and stores of Wichita
C) a list of workers needed for the renovation of the building
D) original floorplans and pictures of the church
3)
To present the theme that change and progress are often painful, the poet uses
A) repetition of words to symbolize pain.
B) characters that express their feelings.
C) sensory images to create a feeling of loss.
D) rhyming words to create a rhythm of sadness.
4)
Which word BEST completes the analogy?

Sally Richards:Reverend Richards :: watched:
A) carried
B) left
C) lost
D) stayed
5)
This text might be identified as a memoir if
A) it employed the multi-level usage of a literary symbol.
B) it told one person's emotional memory of a church's destruction.
C) it had more extensive use of rhyme, imagery, and figurative language.
D) it had more regular stanzas and used the same line lengths throughout.

can you show my a paragraph so i can read, then answer it? it would be thx!

explanation:

question 1: d) the old man continued, "in the long run, what people think about shepherds and bakers becomes more important for them than their own destinies.'"

question 2: d) by providing a different perspective and encouraging the englishman to never give up, the boy him to discover the alchemist.

question 3: c) the stones he gave santiago the boy to recognize omens, which will him on his journey to find his personal legend.

question 4: d) when the englishman wants to quit, santiago doesn’t allow the englishman to give up.

question 5: a) by instructing the englishman to go and try, the englishman is motivated to continue on his journey toward his personal legend.

explanation:

he will find out what went wrong or happened and how.

98 points!

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"?

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