Setting and Dialect in The People Could Fly
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Visualizing a Scene
Visualize the scene created in the passage. Use your
own words to describe in detail what you see, hear,
and smell.
Bruh Rabbit smells the wind. He find out which way it
drivin. He knock the coal from he pipe. Red-hot coal fall
in the broom grass. Bruh Rabbit blow on the coal and it
catch fire. Fire set pen the field, the broom grass all
around on fire. And Bruh Rabbit find heself a stump
to set pontop and he set up there and he watch and wait.
The fire comin strong all around and around, for true.
-"Bruh Alligator and Bruh Deer,"
Virginia Hamilton

Visualize the scene created in the passage. Use your own words to describe what you see, hear, and smell.

Sample Response: Feeling the heat, Bruh Rabbit sits on a stump in the middle of a field of broom grass. The breeze blowing past him carries the smell of smoke away from the red-hot coal, the cause of the blaze. Bruh Rabbit watches as the flames begin to spread.

Explanation:

Its correct :)

answer: this is not a good thesis statement because a thesis statement is not supposed to have questions in it. a thesis states your position on your topic. a question cannot state anything because it is not a statement. a question is a great lead in to a thesis, but it can't be the thesis.

peace, morning, sun glooming, sorrow, woe pardon’d, punished, more hence, talk, story. all of these three words have to do something with a depressed, regretful tone. woe is another word for misery, heartache, so all of these words are about unhappy feelings.