Read this excerpt from "gravity" by judith ortiz cofer: i could never ask any of my friends over to our apartment. they would have suffered culture shock. so i divided myself into two people—actually three, if you counted the after-school hippie version as a separate identity. it was not always easy to shuffle out of my visionary self and into the binding coat of propriety the puerto rican girl was supposed to wear, although my parents were more understanding than others in our barrio. which of the main character's traits does the passage most clearly reveal?

Read this adapted excerpt from a famous poem by john keats. this poem is about a beautiful vase with intricate shapes and patterns. you, silent form, do tease us out of thought as does etemity: cold pastorall when old age shall this generation waste, you shall remain in the middle of other woe than ours, a friend to man, to whom you say "beauty is truth, truth beauty that is all you know on earth, and all you need to know what is the poet saying when he writes that "old age shall this generation waste"? the poet is expressing his dread of growing older the poet is mourning the changes he sees in his "generation." the poet is saying that beauty is illusionary and short-lived. the poet is saying that people don't live long; life is brief