Back when I was a teenager in the Bronx, summer was

a time for both fun and work. Starting at about age

fourteen, I worked summers and Christmas holidays at a

toy and baby furniture store in the Bronx. The owner, Jay

Sickser, a Russian Jewish immigrant, hired me off the street

as I walked past his store. “You want to make a few bucks

unloading a truck in back?” he asked me. I said yes. The job

took a couple of hours, and he paid me fifty cents an hour.

“You’re a good worker,” he told me when I’d finished. “Come back tomorrow.”

What elements in this passage, show that it is a memoir?

The author includes dialogue.

The author uses the names of real people and places.

The author uses the pronouns I and me, which show first-person point of view

The author uses flashback.

The author uses the names of real people and places.

The author uses the pronouns I and me, which show first-person point of view

The author uses flashback.

Explanation:

I am assuming that you can choose multiple answers. if you can only choose one answer, then it is "the author uses flashback." A memoir is when someone writes about moments or events from their life. At the beginning the author writes "back when I was a teenager in the Bronx," which means that this is a memory and happened in the author's life, therefore making this a memoir. The names of real people and places make it a memoir because these are real events. The pronouns I and me mean that this is in first person, which makes sense because these events happened to the author.

the first proposition is to question economic materialism and victorian christianity. the lines are:

“it moves us not.—great god! i'd rather be

a pagan suckled in a creed outworn; ”

wordsworth is stating that nature no longer interests mankind, that the latter is not “moved” by it and explains that ancient western paganism had a more positive attitude concerning nature since it lacked the perv erted judaeo-christian interpretation of having received the world and all its animals and elements from god to use as we , instead of humans actually being not only part of nature but its wardens, meant to appreciate it and protect it.

the next lines are:

“so might i, standing on this pleasant lea,

have glimpses that would make me less forlorn;

have sight of proteus coming from the sea;

or hear old triton blow his wreathed horn.”

wordsworth here make it very clear that by actually looking and contemplating nature, human beings would reconnect with happiness, serenity and purpose. the use of mythological figures is quite evocative as well, proteus is a greek mythological god of the changing sea. he personifies the sea that changes, which symbolizes the way nature changes and inevitably can change to be destructive not only due to natural causes but to human pollution. furthermore, the sea is even more symbolic since all life originated in the sea so it is not only our past but our future since no life form in our planet can survive without water and if all water is destroyed in earth all life will be gone as well.

he then uses triton which is symbolic of the synthesis of both nature and mankind. triton is a mythological greek god that has the upper body of a man and the lower body of a fish (a merman). this human fish duality evokes the fact that humans are not only human but also part of nature, the fish tail representing nature. the main attribute of this god was that he used a conch shell as a horn to calm the roaring seas. in other words, triton uses nature through science for the benefit of human sailors who risk death during tempests. with the use of such metaphor, wordworth is conveying the message that human technology   is supposed to use nature to preserve nature and thereby humanity as well.

the correct answer is b. in order to explain a point clearly in an essay, it is always better to include a clear example of your ideas. including an scenario in which a family is affected by consumerism will support your argument as well as supporting details, such as quotations from experts and statistics. option a could be correct, but statistics and quotations are supporting ideas rather than clear explanations. choices c and d are simply inadequate. they do not add information about the effects of consumerism, rather they are strategies for engaging the reader