How might an author’s background and time period affect a piece of writing?
a: they can affect the author’s perspective and in turn the theme and purpose for the writing.
b: an author’s background and time period do not have any effect on the writing.
c: an author’s background and time period will only affect voice and word choice.
d: they will affect only the author’s choice of topic and the genre of the writing.

A: They can affect the author’s perspective and in turn the theme and purpose for the writing.

The author's background and time period greatly affect the text that the author produces. This is because we are all a reflection of our time period and background. Depending on where and when we were born, we will find some questions more important than others. For example, if we are a wealthy person born in medieval times, we will most likely be interested in courtly love and stories of knights and honour. However, if we are born in the 20th century in Africa, we might instead focus on colonialism and its effects on the newly liberated countries. The theme and the purpose of writing are both affected by these conditions.

shakespeare was famous for writing in iambic pentameter, which is a specific way of rhyming sonnet lines in ten syllables. there are also forms of unrhymed iambic pentameter, as in macbeth, with the noble characters.

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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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