Consider this quote from the video: i don't think ravi felt isolated. i think he was bored, and he didn't think the game was very interesting. like he wanted to hide so that he didn't have to play, and he could just chill and wait it out. do you agree or disagree with this point of view? find evidence from the story to support or refute the student's claim. in your response, clarify why you agree or disagree with the student's thoughts.

Answer and explanation:

Ravi is a character in the short story "Games at Twilight" by author Anita Desai. In the narrative, Ravi and his siblings are playing hide-and-seek in the yard and garden around their house. Being one of the smaller kids, Ravi realizes his chances of hiding from Raghu by running from him are not very good. He chooses to hide in a shed, a small place full of rats and spiders where old furniture and broken things are kept. Ravi slips through a gap between the door and the wall and stays there for hours.

Unlike what is stated in the quote from the video, Ravi did not hide so that he could "just chill and wait [the game] out." When he thinks of the possibility of winning, Ravi is thrilled. He imagines himself being admired, especially because his siblings are mostly older and stronger than he is. The idea of beating them at something excites him so much, he is able to stay still inside that uncomfortable shed until the evening comes:

Ravi sat back on the harsh edge of the tub, deciding to hold out a bit longer. What fun if they  were all found and caught—he alone left unconquered! He had never known that sensation.  Nothing more wonderful had ever happened to him than being taken out by an uncle and  bought a whole slab of chocolate all to himself, or being flung into the soda man’s pony cart  and driven up to the gate by the friendly driver with the red beard and pointed ears. To defeat  Raghu—that hirsute, hoarse-voiced football champion—and to be the winner in a circle of  older, bigger, luckier children—that would be thrilling beyond imagination. He hugged his  knees together and smiled to himself almost shyly at the thought of so much victory, such  laurels.

There he sat smiling, knocking his heels against the bathtub, now and then getting up and  going to the door to put his ear to the broad crack and listening for sounds of the game, the  pursuer and the pursued, and then returning to his seat with the dogged determination of the  true winner, a breaker of records, a champion.

Unfortunately, Ravi ends up being completely forgotten by the other children. At the end of the story, a feeling of insignificance washes away the picture of victory he had made up in his mind.

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)

the answer is b. the tomb is underground and dark, and its opening is covered by a heavy grate.