Infer Starting in line 16, the speaker introduces a series of statements from various
people. Who are these people, and what do they represent? How does the content
of their discussion relate to the phrase "suspenseful drama in lines 27-28?

In this text, the author discusses the possibilities of the existence of intelligent life outside Earth. He describes the moment in which people began pondering why there were no signs of intelligent life anywhere besides humans. The author gives us statements that summarize the way these people thought about it. This includes wondering whether habitable planets were rare, whether intelligence was unique, or whether a "creator" did not create more beings like us.

The contents of their discussion all relate to the idea of a "suspenseful drama." This drama is that of wondering whether humanity will continue to advance (because the great tragedy is already behind us) or whether it will be destroyed.

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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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