Read the excerpt below from a long way gone by ishmael beah and answer the question that follows. the four of us had started a rap and dance group when i was eight. we were first introduced to rap music during one of our visits to mobimbi, a quarter where the foreigners who worked for the same american company as my father lived. we often went to mobimbi to swim in a pool and watch the huge color television and the white people who crowded the visitors’ recreational area. one evening a music video that consisted of a bunch of young black fellows talking really fast came on the television. the four of us sat there mesmerized by the song, trying to understand what the black fellows were saying. . i was impressed that the black fellows knew how to speak english really fast, and to the beat. what do the details in setting reveal about beah’s personality?

What does"after getting my report card i knew it was time to hit the books mean

This excerpt is repeated several times. what effect does this repetition have on the epic

Read the excerpt from the land. in the late afternoon i did the same, but all the time i was on the stallion, i was aware that mitchell was watching me. he had appeared on the edge of the woods and had just stood there watching ghost wind and me as we went round and round the meadow. finally, on one of our turns past him, he said: "s'pose you thinkin' you a real somebody 'cause you can ride that stallion." i looked down at mitchell and stopped, knowing that despite our understanding, he was itching for a fight with me. now, i don't know what possessed me in that moment to say the next thing i did. maybe i was feeling guilty that because i was my daddy's son, i could ride ghost wind. maybe it was that, but it wasn't out of fear i said what i said. i no longer was afraid of mitchell. "you want to ride him? " i asked. mitchell took a step backward. it was obvious he hadn't expected me to say that. "you know i can't ride him," he said. "your white daddy'd kill me." "you want to ride him? " i asked again. mitchell looked at the stallion, then at me. "so, what if i do? " what intrinsic motivation does the author most likely intend the reader to infer from the passage? paul is motivated by his need to have mitchell praise his riding skills. mitchell is motivated by his need to have paul praise his riding skills. paul is motivated by jealousy and wishes he had free time like mitchell. mitchell is motivated by jealousy and wishes he could ride the horse.