Which sentences in the excerpt best demonstrate zora neale hurston’s opinion that it is necessary to publish stories about average african americans as well as those who are considered extraordinary?

realistic story around a negro insurance official, dentist, general practitioner, undertaker and the like would be most disguised fiction around the well known negro names is not the answer, the "exceptional" as well as the ol' man rivers has been exploited all out of context already. is already resigned to the "exceptional" negro, and willing to be entertained by the "quaint."…

it is inevitable that this knowledge will destroy many illusions and romantic traditions which america probably likes to have around. then, we have no record of anybody sinking into a lingering death on finding out that there was no santa claus. the old world will take it in its realization that negroes are no better nor no worse, and at times just as bonny as everybody else, will hardly kill off the population of the

answer: the essay describes the experience of the english narrator, possibly orwell himself, called upon to shoot an aggressive elephant while working as a police officer in burma.

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assignment

analyzing characters

respond to the following questions in one paragraph for each. use specific examples from the text to support your responses.

1. there is a set of twins on the island named sam and eric. however, when describing them, golding regularly refers to them as samneric. how does this way of describing the twins relate to their behavior and the way that readers understand their characters? what examples of their behavior readers see that samneric is really the appropriate way to refer to them?

2. as the boys set out to search for the beast, ralph allows jack to lead the way, and he sinks to the back of the pack, " to have escaped responsibility for a time." what does this moment lead you to infer about ralph and about his feelings about being the group’s leader? what does this moment foreshadow?

3. while part of the party searching for the beast, simon realizes that the notion of the beast that the other boys have does not make sense. a beast sitting atop a mountain with claws, a beast who did not leave tracks, could have easily caught the twins. simon has a different picture of the beast: "there rose before his inward sight the picture of a human at once heroic and sick." how does this picture relate to the beast that samneric saw? how does it relate to what simon said earlier about the beast being "only us"?

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