What factors likely influenced Achebe’s perspective on Heart of Darkness? Select two options. He disapproves of Conrad’s use of multiple narrators in the story. He was born in Nigeria and moved to the United States. He approves of Conrad highlighting Africans’ accomplishments and power. He agrees with perpetuating damaging stereotypes. He has studied the impact of colonialism on Africans in depth.

B and E

Explanation:

B. He was born in Nigeria and moved to the United States

E. He has studied the impact of colonialism on Africans in depth

to and without are prepositions, so a, b, and d are prepositional phrases. the adverb phrase is c, about the surprise.

explanation:

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serve the people! ,” smoothly translated by julia lovell, offers an initial sample of yan lianke’s writing to an english-speaking audience. a bluntly drawn, mildly erotic fable, it teases mao zedong by poking fun at a true believer who obeys the chairman’s precepts too literally. to a western sensibility, the broad strokes of yan lianke’s humor would seem to pose little risk of inciting rebellion, whether of the flesh or of the body politic. but then, part of the book’s attraction is that it doesn’t have a western sensibility. it lets the reader see — or rather, intuit — what jokes chinese officials don’t consider funny, and how very little it takes for a writer to be branded an incendiary in 21st-century china, more than three decades after the death of mao, a decade after the death of deng xiaoping and seven years since china entered the world trade organization, a move that would seem to signal a willingness (however wary) to mingle with the rest of the world.