Akey feature of romanticism is its celebration of the individual. the romantics encouraged people to exercise their uniqueness and their unconventional sides. in particular, they inspired people to look to nature and away from industrial society. the works of the american romantics inspired many young people of their day and spawned a whole new type of literature.

think about contemporary artists who create the same kind of impression as the romantics did. can you think of a poem, song, painting, or movie that empowers individuals to be themselves and to oppose conventional thinking? perhaps you can think of a piece of art that represents the value of nature over the value of society. choose one piece of art or one artist, and explain how that work or artist celebrates individualism in today’s culture.

(i can not think of anything, )

Javier is writing a literary analysis of the secret garden. read this introduction to his essay. frances burnett’s “the secret garden” explores the challenges of a sickly, self-centered little girl named mary lennox. after mary’s parents die of cholera, she moves from india to england to live at her uncle’s estate in yorkshire. while living at the old estate, mary discovers an abandoned garden that belonged to her deceased aunt. tending to the neglected garden brings mary joy, and her health improves. through mary’s transformation, burnett presents nature as a symbol of rebirth and healing. which piece of textual evidence should javier use to support the claim made in the introduction? a. “‘it’s in the garden no one can go into,’ she said to herself. ‘it’s the garden without a door. he lives in there. how i wish i could see what it is like! ’” b. “in india she had always felt hot and too languid to care much about anything. the fact was that the fresh wind from the moor had begun to blow the cobwebs out of her young brain and to waken her up a little.” c. “mary felt lonelier than ever when she knew she was no longer in the house. she went out into the garden as quickly as possible, and the first thing she did was to run round and round the fountain flower garden ten times.” d. “‘it isn’t a quite dead garden,’ she cried out softly to herself. ‘even if the roses are dead, there are other things alive.’”