Read the excerpt below and answer the question. There was moment, in time, and in this place, when my brother, or my mother, or my father, or my sister,
had to convey to me, for example, the danger in which I was standing from the white man standing just
behind me, and to convey this with a speed, and in a language, that the white man could not possibly
understand, and that, indeed, he cannot understand, until today. He cannot afford to understand it. This
understanding would reveal to him too much about himself, and smash that mirror before which he has
been frozen for so long.

Select all
This excerpt from "If Black English Isn't A Language, Then Tell Me, What is?" is significant because
that apply.

Hughes imagines himself as a black slave.

Hughes uses Black English to emphasize his argument.

Hughes uses a historical example to explain the origins of language.

Hughes explains the significance that Black English holds for white people.

to persuade readers which is answer c

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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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