4.2.7 quiz: analyze themes in life and literature
read this passage:
there were old, half-rotten vegetables, bones from the
evening meal, covered in white sauce that had gone hard, a
few raisins and almonds, some cheese that gregor had
declared inedible two days before; a dry roll and some
bread spread with butter and "am i less sensitive
than i used to be, then? ", he thought, and was already
sucking greedily at the cheese which had immediately,
almost compellingly, attracted him much more than the
other foods on the newspaper. quickly one after another,
his eyes watering with pleasure, he consumed the cheese,
the vegetables and the sauce; the fresh foods, on the other
hand, he didn't like at all, and even dragged the things he
did want to eat a little way away from them because he
couldn't stand the smell.
--franz kafka, the metamorphosis (david wyllie, trans.)
what can you infer about gregor from this excerpt?
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a. he always eats trash, and grete is trying to get him to remember
being human
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b. his eating habits are changing, and he is becoming physically less
human.
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c. he is ungrateful and refuses to eat all of the food that grete brings
for him
d. his appetite is good, which shows that his body is trying to return
to human form
o

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argument: "it's time to wage a war against britain to secure american freedom."

claims: "america has tried every peaceful method available for seperating from england" & "the americans' petitions to the king have been turned away by him."

tom robinson he was a black man that was accused of raping caucasian woman, and an idealistic lawyer offers to defend him. which makes nobody believe in the innocence of a negro.

the answer is b) ''i hereby express my profound remorse together with my sincere mourning ''.

the reason being that although all of the options provided are valid the main idea of the speech by prime minister junichiro koizumi is to express his and japan's current antiwar pledge.

he states that 59 years had passed since the war, he acknowledges the 3 million japanese that lost their lives during the war and those countries who were affected by their decisions, as well as the way japan intends to develop relationships across the globe however all of this can be summarize to how japan as a whole regrets the war and its consecuences.

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the grass-plot before the jail, in prison lane, on a certain summer morning, not less than two centuries ago, was occupied by a pretty large number of the inhabitants of boston; all with their eyes intently fastened on the iron-clamped oaken door.

— the scarlet letter,

nathaniel hawthorne

''eyes intently fastened''

''iron-clamped oaken door''

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