Read the article below carefully and answer the question that follows. on the morning of july 15, 2006, fourteen school buses were vandalized. the buses, property of walt whitman middle school, were parked in the "bus barn" on campus. the vandals spray-painted the buses with pictures of dogs. dogs happen to be the mascot of rival school edgar allan poe academy. this has led some to believe that some students from eapa may be the culprits in the incident. says the mother of one walt whitman student, "oh, yeah, the [edgar allan] poe [academy] kids are definitely responsible. those kids don't have any discipline, and they're still stewing over the loss of last week's football game." police, however, say that they currently have no suspects. this article was most likely found in a local newspaper a national newspaper a periodical all of the above none of the above

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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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