Read the excerpt from The Land. "Cassie, you know 'bout Mitchell?" I asked her. "Course I know about Mitchell," she answered. "Why're you letting him beat up on you?" "I'm not letting him!" I exclaimed in outrage. "You thinking I'm liking him beating up on me?" "Well, if you're not, you'd better make him stop." "Well, I'm trying." "Well, you'd better try harder." "I've tried fighting back, but he's too strong. Thing is, I don't know how to stop him." This excerpt demonstrates a character vs. self conflict because Paul describes his personal struggle with how to handle Mitchell. his struggle to get Cassie to help him with Mitchell. his conversation with Cassie about handling Mitchell. his interactions with both Cassie and Mitchell. *answer*

How would “in a station or the metro” change of the bough was bright and lovely rather than wet and black a: the station would seem cheerier b: the poem would not be considered imagist c: the people would seem less pleasant. d: the poem would no longer be hokku

Explain the process of conflict resolution in the plot line of the story

Which lines in this excerpt from act ii of william shakespeare’s romeo and juliet reveal that mercutio thinks romeo would be better off if he stopped thinking about love? mercutio: i will bite thee by the ear for that jest. romeo: nay, good goose, bite not. mercutio: thy wit is a very bitter sweeting it is a most sharp sauce. romeo: and is it not well served in to a sweet goose? mercutio: o here's a wit of cheveril, that stretches from an inch narrow to an ell broad! romeo: i stretch it out for that word 'broad; ' which added to the goose, proves thee far and wide a broad goose. mercutio: why, is not this better now than groaning for love? now art thou sociable, now art thou romeo; now art thou what thou art, by art as well as by nature: for this drivelling love is like a great natural, that runs lolling up and down to hide his bauble in a hole. benvolio: stop there, stop there. mercutio: thou desirest me to stop in my tale against the hair. benvolio: thou wouldst else have made thy tale large. mercutio: o, thou art deceived; i would have made it short: for i was come to the whole depth of my tale; and meant, indeed, to occupy the argument no longer.