Read the excerpt from chapter 2 of animal farm.

the pigs now revealed that during the past three months they had taught themselves to read and write from an old spelling book which had belonged to mr. jones’s children and which had been thrown on the rubbish heap. napoleon sent for pots of black and white paint and led the way down to the five-barred gate that gave on to the main road. then snowball (for it was snowball who was best at writing) took a brush between the two knuckles of his trotter, painted out manor farm from the top bar of the gate and in its place painted animal farm.

how does the pacing of this passage influence the reader’s interpretation of the text? select two options.
the fast pacing of the text contributes to a feeling of suspense.

the fast pacing highlights exciting events to keep the reader’s attention.

the fast pacing indicates that the story is moving toward a key event in the text.

the slow pacing furthers the plot by explaining how the pigs can read and write.

the slow pacing furthers the plot by giving details about napoleon and snowball.

I think the answers are B nad C. First, the pacing is quick.There is an important cousre of action followed by another performed by a different character. Second, pacing like this keeps the reader curious about what it is going to happen next.Last but not least, these actions are certainly leading to something which is of unmitigated importance in the story.

a) madame podtochina used witchcraft to make it disappear.

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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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