The passage from "by the waters of babylon.”

when i was very near, my raft struck and turned over. i can swim in our lakes—i swam to the shore. there was a great spike of rusted metal sticking out into the river—i hauled myself up upon it and sat there, panting. i had saved my bow and two arrows and the knife i found in the dead place but that was all. my raft went whirling downstream toward the bitter water. i looked after it, and thought if it had trod me under, at least i would be safely dead. nevertheless, when i had dried my bowstring and re-strung it, i walked forward to the place of the gods.

what kind of atmosphere is created by the author's word choice in this excerpt?

a welcoming atmosphere
a horrific atmosphere
a religious atmosphere
a threatening atmosphere

write two paragraphs to compare and contrast the narrators’ schools and explain how their schools shape their perspectives toward the hijab. cite evidence from the text to support your ideas.

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two paragraphs to compare and contrast the narrator's schools would be this, the one school with the veil is the one school were the students were forced to wear the veils, and they did not know why they had to wear the veils. the girl student writing the story was not like the other students, she didn't care. in the second school there was a lot of hostile activities going on throughout the school. most of the students were upset and this, including the author, but she was trying to look and the good side of things.  

overall, both schools had something that the students or most of the students did not like or appreciate. what you can learn from these stories is that life will never be exactly how you may want it to be. complaining about your lifestyle will only make matters worse or at least feel worse in the long run. that's happens to be the information you can interpret from these two stories.

showing or suffering from nervousness, fear, or a lack of confidence