Answer:
He explains to Messala that he never believed in omens or fate before, even though he has seen many signs along his way to tell him that they are possible.
Similarities:
Both boys come from the poorest class in Maycomb. Their fathers seem to be unemployed. The reader knows that Bob Ewell does not have a job, and because of the financial straits that the Cunninghams find themselves in (having to pay Atticus in a non-monetary manner), it is safe to assume that Walter's dad is also without a steady job. Both boys are proud and naturally do not want their poverty brought to light. When Miss Caroline singles out Burris and Walter at different times in front of the class, both are embarrassed. Both characters also seem to be motherless; the author states that Burris's mother is dead, and Walter's mom goes unmentioned in the novel. Thus, their father's play an influential role in their lives.
Differences:
While both boys come from the same social class, there is a marked difference between them and the manner in which they are raised. Burris's father makes a living off the town's welfare and goodness and does not stress education. Walter's dad deplores being indebted to any man and sees that his children attend school regularly. Burris's father teaches him to be disrespectful and bullish, while Walter's dad can be reasoned with and is willing to admit when he's wrong--the same can be said of Walter.
The author uses the two boys and their families to show that even in the midst of a depression and extreme poverty, one can hold onto his dignity (Walter and his family) instead of regressing to everyman for himself (the Ewell family).
The correct answer is C: point of view. When a narrator writes his opinion about a subject or his position in front of the facts that he narrates he is using his point of view, that is, his way of seeing, analyzing and his position on a certain topic.
to provide food
to push away
to react to something
The correct answer is: to react to something.
b. Benjamin Franklin's "Join, or Die"
c. John Adams's letters
d. John Dickinson's Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania
Souls that have toil'd, and wrought, and thought with me--
That ever with a frolic welcome took
The thunder and the sunshine, and opposed
Free hearts, free foreheads--you and I are old;
Old age hath yet his honour and his toil.
Death closes all; but something ere the end,
Some work of noble note, may yet be done,
Not unbecoming men that strove with Gods.
A .The old have free hearts and free minds.
B. The mariners have toiled hard to avoid the dark and broad seas.
C. It is very important to have free time and sunshine in life.
D. The old can regain honor by taking up challenges again.
Answer: D) The old can regain honor by taking up challenges again.
Explanation: In literature, the theme is the underlying message of a story, it is what critical belief about life is the author trying to convey in the writing of a novel, play, short story or poem. Usually this belief, or idea, is universal and transcends cultural barriers. In the given excerpt we can see reflected the theme that the old can regain honor by taking up challenges again, as we can see in the phrases "but something ere the end, Some work of noble note, may yet be done.."