Like Superman with all his super powers, Cruising at lightning speed around the Earth, Or leaping from Metropolis's towers, Or soaring toward his fortress in the north, His mighty prowess never falling victim To any weapon save for (strangely enough) A fragment of his long-lost planet Krypton, Wounded by what he could not help but love, So I too had lately come to feel Invulnerable, the enemy subdued, The bullets bouncing off my heart of steel, Safe in its artic fortress of solitude, Or rising up in solitary flight— And then you came along: my kryptonite. Which best expresses the attitude of the speaker of this poem? A) The speaker is stoic, unemotional, and unmoved by romantic relationships. B) The speaker wants to pretend she doesn't need love--but she really does. C) The speaker is unbelievably sad about not having a romantic relationship. D) The speaker thinks that her lack of romantic relationships in her life is hilarious.

How does the author foreshadow trouble in the prison? support your answer with explicit textual evidence

Reread lines 6-7 "the survivor." determine how the tone of these differs from the preceding lines (1-5)

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.