Rate this poem please for me! For a school project. Walking down the broken stone roads, I tripped. Scraping my fragile knee against others' misfortunes. Desperately, I saw the blinding lights of the future. Blinding millions, turning oblivious. Rapidly I get up, limping towards the road of hope. Desperately, I look for a clearing. I push through the woman holding their crying babies. I heard a loud crash, then I looked back. I see the ashy skies, then I looked down and saw her. The one I came for. The naive 9-year-old girl. Indecisive I am whether to turn back or keep going. A thought later, I was squeezing her shoulder, pushing through the crowd. The ashy sky made her cry. I dried her tears with my cloth. Reassuring her that she would see her mother again, little did she know that was a white lie. Thinking and thinking we climbed aboard a boat. The musky water brushing against our arms. I stop, look back wondering of the past. Remembering why I'm here, I look foward once again.

In the poem "we wear the mask," paul laurence dunbar voices his repressed anger and frustration toward american society. he repeats the title phrase three times in the poem, using the words mask and we to show that the first use of the phrase is matter-of-fact. in the second stanza, the statement is followed by a period, which shows resignation. however, at the end of the poem, dunbar almost shouts the phrase defiantly. the mask seems to become something he wears proudly. through this gradual emphasis on the phrase, dunbar could be implying that

Write a two-paragraph objective summary of charlotte perkins gilman's "the yellow wallpaper." identify a theme of the story and explore how characterization and setting develop that theme. one paragraph will be about character and the other paragraph will be about setting, but both paragraphs must be about the same theme. your story should include the following elements: two paragraphs, each about a different detail (character or setting) that shows the theme objective summaries that emphasize details related to each paragraph topic clear, formal, academic language that shows your professionalism you should have completed a draft of this assignment in the activity before this one. if you haven't done so, go back and complete that activity now.

Select the correct answer. read this excerpt from incidents in the life of a slave girl by harriet ann jacobs: among the ladies who were acquainted with my grandmother, was one who had known her from childhood, and always been very friendly to her. she had also known my mother and her children, and felt interested for them. at this crisis of affairs she called to see my grandmother, as she not unfrequently did. she observed the sad and troubled expression of her face, and asked if she knew where linda was, and whether she was safe. my grandmother shook her head, without answering. "come, aunt martha," said the kind lady, "tell me all about it. perhaps i can do something to you." which of these important concepts uncommon to abolitionist literature does jacobs depict in the excerpt? 1. some kind white characters were included in slave narratives so that northerners would not be offended. 2. southern society was complex and diverse with both good and bad people unlike northern stereotypes showed. 3. many kind slave owners and their slaves developed deep friendships. 4. most whites and blacks lived in harmony in the south and made efforts to each other. a. 1 and 4 b. 1 and 3 c. 1 and 2 d. 2 and 3