Read the excerpt below from "two kinds" by amy tan and answer the question that follows. three days after watching the ed sullivan show, my mother told me what my schedule would be for piano lessons and piano practice. she had talked to mr. chong, who lived on the first floor of our apartment building. mr. chong was a retired piano teacher and my mother had traded housecleaning services for weekly lessons and a piano for me to practice on every day, two hours a day, from four until six. when my mother told me this, i felt as though i had been sent to hell. i whined and then kicked my foot a little when i couldn't stand it anymore. "why don't you like me the way i am? i'm not a genius! i can't play the piano. and even if i could, i wouldn't go on tv if you paid me a million dollars! " i cried. my mother slapped me. "who ask you to be genius? " she shouted. "only ask you be your best. for you sake. you think i want you be genius? hnnh! what for! who ask you! " "so ungrateful," i heard her mutter in chinese. "if she had as much talent as she has temper, she would be famous now." why does jing-mei refuse to take the piano lessons in the scene above? think about the context of the scene. you may need to review the story and your notes on jing-mei.

Which three parts of this passage from chapter 6 of emily brontë's wuthering heights show that hindley earnshaw did not care about the well-being of catherine and heathcliff after the death of mr. earnshaw? they both promised fair to grow up as rude as savages; the young master being entirely negligent how they behaved, and what they did, so they kept clear of him. he would not even have seen after their going to church on sundays, only joseph and the curate reprimanded his carelessness when they absented themselves; and that reminded him to order heathcliff a flogging, and catherine a fast from dinner or supper. but it was one of their chief amusements to run away to the moors in the morning and remain there all day, and the after punishment grew a mere thing to laugh at. the curate might set as many chapters as he for catherine to get by heart, and joseph might thrash heathcliff till his arm ached; they forgot everything the minute they were together again: at least the minute they had contrived some naughty plan of revenge; and many a time i’ve cried to myself to watch them growing more reckless daily, and i not daring to speak a syllable, for fear of losing the small power i still retained over the unfriended creatures. one sunday evening, it chanced that they were banished from the sitting-room, for making a noise, or a light offence of the kind; and when i went to call them to supper, i could discover them nowhere. we searched the house, above and below, and the yard and stables; they were invisible: and, at last, hindley in a passion told us to bolt the doors, and swore nobody should let them in that night. the household went to bed; and i, too, anxious to lie down, opened my lattice and put my head out to hearken, though it rained: determined to admit them in spite of the prohibition, should they return.

In keats's "ode to a nightingale," to which of the following methods does keats not turn in his attempt to reconnect imaginatively with the "melodious bird"? - poetry - white wine - opium - sparkling red wine

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