Which words from the passage to create a dark or grim tone?
it is early morning on a caribbean island, and african
slaves-hundreds of them-are being sent out to the
fields to pull weeds and burn the high, dry grass. bent
over, palms callused from the small, tough stalks, smoke
scorching their eyes, they work. the overseer prowls
nearby, mounted on horseback, a rawhide whip fastened
to his saddle.
-sugar changed the world,
marc aronson and marina budhos
o sent, burn, bent
o palms, eyes, rawhide
o morning, weeds, tough
o callused, scorching, prowls

In the franz kafka’s the metamorphosis after gregory turns into a giant insect he realizes his sister grete can’t stand to look at him. he hides from his sister and stays under a bedsheet.what does this act suggest about gregor?

Which excerpt from initiation is the best example of an internal conflict

Read the passage below and answer the question that follows. ‘you make me feel uncivilized, daisy,’ i confessed on my second glass of corky but rather impressive claret. ‘can’t you talk about crops or something? ’ i meant nothing in particular by this remark but it was taken up in an unexpected way. ‘civilization’s going to pieces,’ broke out tom violently. ‘i’ve gotten to be a terrible pessimist about things. have you read ‘the rise of the coloured empires’ by this man goddard? ’ ‘why, no,’ i answered, rather surprised by his tone. ‘well, it’s a fine book, and everybody ought to read it. the idea is if we don’t look out the white race will be—will be utterly submerged. it’s all scientific stuff; it’s been proved.’ in this passage, tom’s ideas about race relations come off as uncivilized. what literary device is fitzgerald using here? irony personification metaphor simile