Read the excerpt from lizzie bright and the buckminster boy.

and that was how lizzie saw him as she came up the coast: his back to her, wearing a white shirt fit for glory, throwing rocks up into the air and swinging at them with a piece of driftwood
if she had figured he had come for a place to breathe, she might have been more understanding—even if she had wondered about him some. if she had figured he was absolutely and completely crazy, she would have let him be. but as far as she knew, he was standing with his left leg forward on her shore, in a place where she had come to clam and to breathe. it was as if he were telling her to move on.
and she had had enough of that.

how does the setting in this excerpt contribute to lizzie’s internal conflict?

a)lizzie is unhappy because turner is wearing a white shirt that is better than her own clothes.
b) lizzie is angry because turner is using rocks and a stick instead of a ball and a bat to practice baseball.
c)lizzie is upset because turner is standing on the beach she is used to having to herself.
d)lizzie is afraid because turner is digging for clams in the spot that lizzie usually digs.

in the short story the slip-over sweater by jesse stuart, the main character and narrator shan is friends with grace, an intelligent girl he has known since childhood and with whom he used to be in love.

at the beginning of the story, shan believes he’s no longer in love with grace, but loves jo-anne instead. in order to buy a slip-over sweater and have jo-anne wear it so that the other students would know she loved him too, shan takes a loan at the bank.

while jo-anne is wearing shan’s sweater, his friend grace starts to wear another popular boy’s one, roy’s sweater. because of that, the other students begin to pay attention to grace and compliment her perseverance and effort. they admire her for walking 5 miles to school every day, despite the weather, and still getting the best grades. shan, who knows all of that for a fact, says, as the narrator, ‘and i knew she had the durability and the toughness of a storm-battered mountain oak.’ he compares his friend’s strength – not only physical, but also of character – to an oak tree, whose wood is known for being sturdy.

as the story goes on, shan changes his behavior out of concern for the debt he has to pay at the bank. his new girlfriend jo-anne never asks him what is wrong nor offers any sort of . instead, she breaks up with shan for not being as fun as she thought he was supposed to be. grace, however, not only asks about shan’s problem, but him make the money he needs. shan can’t but notice how different the girls are and what a wonderful person grace is.   even though he used to find jo-anne prettier at the beginning of the story, he now says, ‘grace was as beautiful as our mountain was in april, prettier than a blossom of wild phlox or a mountain daisy.’ his comparing grace to a mountain or something that exists on a mountain (such as a mountain oak or daisy) certainly has important meaning since shan loves the mountain and everything about it and he knows the mountain thoroughly. shan also loves and knows grace as completely as he does the mountain.

answer: they were written as a long tale

explanation:

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