Read the summary of the conclusion of "The World on Turtle's Back." [1] When the twins grew up, they continued to fight. [2] One day they decided to hold a contest to determine
who was stronger. [3] Though they tried to defeat each other in many different ways, neither one could win. [4]
On the last day, they fought with weapons. [5] Using a deer antler, the right-handed twin overpowered his
brother, and he threw him off the edge of the Earth. [6] Today, the right-handed twin lives in the Sky-World,
and the left-handed twin lives in the dark underworld. [7] They rule the earthly world of men together.
Which best describes this summary?
O It has a variety of sentence structures.
O Most of the sentences begin with independent clauses.
O Each sentence is complex-compound.
O Each sentence begins with the subject.

he describes the bird as "stately."

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~ash belle

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serve the people! ,” smoothly translated by julia lovell, offers an initial sample of yan lianke’s writing to an english-speaking audience. a bluntly drawn, mildly erotic fable, it teases mao zedong by poking fun at a true believer who obeys the chairman’s precepts too literally. to a western sensibility, the broad strokes of yan lianke’s humor would seem to pose little risk of inciting rebellion, whether of the flesh or of the body politic. but then, part of the book’s attraction is that it doesn’t have a western sensibility. it lets the reader see — or rather, intuit — what jokes chinese officials don’t consider funny, and how very little it takes for a writer to be branded an incendiary in 21st-century china, more than three decades after the death of mao, a decade after the death of deng xiaoping and seven years since china entered the world trade organization, a move that would seem to signal a willingness (however wary) to mingle with the rest of the world.

the opening scene of "sweat" exposes the great emotional charge of the story. it shows the violence and abuse that dyes the marriage between delia jones and skyes.

skyes decides to terrorize his wife by pulling a bull whip (which resembles a snake), knowing that she is terrified of those animals. skyes laughs cruelly at her and kicks the laundry with which delia has been working hard, telling her to get rid of it. skyes also comments on her religious manners, telling his wife how ridiculous they are. delia reacts by threatening skyes with her frying pan, generating even more conflict