Read the excerpt from the strange case of dr. jekyll and mr. hyde.

my provision of the salt, which had never been renewed since the date of the first experiment, began to run low. i sent out for a fresh supply and mixed the draught; the ebullition followed, and the first change of colour, not the second; i drank it and it was without efficiency. you will learn from poole how i have had london ransacked; it was in vain; and i am now persuaded that my first supply was impure, and that it was that unknown impurity which lent efficacy to the draught.

what is the complication in this excerpt?

a. dr. jekyll’s formula will work only with an impure salt he can no longer find.
b. dr. jekyll has forgotten the secret formula needed to make his transformation.
c. mr. poole finds dr. jekyll’s chemicals and is trying to use them himself.
d. mr. poole has discovered and disclosed the true identity of mr. hyde.

a. Dr. Jekyll’s formula will work only with an impure salt he can no longer find.

In this excerpt, Dr. Jekyll discovers that he has very little salt left, and sends someone to get him some more. However, when he uses the new salt in his potion, it does not have the desired effect. The only logical conclusion is that the salt he had previously bought had some type of impurity that made it effective. However, he does not know what this element was or how he can find it again.

below i present a summary with the most relevant aspects of chapter 2, which were taken from karangan bahasa inggeris (english essays) spm: argumentative essays.

tuna wira

credit to mohana ram murugiah.

i hope to be of

teacher smiles at the students who wait for his signal to sit down. he nods briefly and the students sit down and get ready for the lesson to start. there is an air of quiet expectancy when teacher refers to the unusual things found underneath their houses that morning. whispers of bags of rice ran among the students and a student muttered reluctantly that the rice is rent for the landlord. this starts off the discussion on the issue of paying rent for the use of the landowner’s land. da wan raises the question of why the landlord owns the land rather than the farmer although they have spent a lot of time farming it. the three reasons of labour, need and inheritance are listed as reasons for the landlord’s ownership of the land. they are discussed and dismissed as inadequate reasons. they suggested a system of collective farming to the farmers. the headmaster comes down the corridor to observe the lesson. teacher very quickly changed the lesson to a geography wesson. the students followed his cue and no one gave the slightest notice < of the headmaster ‘s presence. when the headmaster leaves, teacher explains the implications of winning the scholarship. it involves bearing respontsibilities and the scholarship holder should master what is useful and return to the village. he should understand the injustices in the present system and change it to a fairer system. then, he announces the wiimnuir of the scholarship to be dawan.