In this discussion, you will discuss with other students using vocabulary while reading a difficult text, The Hobbit. Let's read Dakota's post.

Reading The Hobbit is not exactly like reading the modern novels I am used to reading. The words seem old-fashioned, and some sentences are confusing. I use the words I know to help me understand the words I don't know. Using context clues, I can usually figure out the new words and what Tolkien is trying to say.

Create one post that answers the following prompt.

The reading in The Hobbit can be challenging. Describe how you use vocabulary to help you understand the text.

What does maurice do when holden refuses to pay him the additional five dollars?

Read the selection below and answer the question. an open boat by alfred noyes o, what is that whimpering there in the darkness? 

 'let him lie in my arms. he is breathing, i know.
 look. i'll wrap all my hair round his neck' – the sea's rising,
 the boat must be lightened. he's dead. he must go.' 


 see - quick - by that flash, where the bitter foam tosses, 
 the cloud of white faces, in the black open boat, 
 and the wild pleading woman that clasps her dead lover 
 and wraps her loose hair round his breast and his throat.
 'come, lady, he's dead.' - 'no, i feel his heart beating,
 he's living, i know. but he's numbed with the cold. 
 see, i'm wrapping my hair all around him to warm him.' -
- 'no. we can't keep the dead, dear. come, loosen your hold.

 'come. loosen your fingers.' - 'o god, let me keep him! ' -
 o, hide it, black night! let the winds have their way! 
 and there are no voices or ghosts from that darkness, 
 to fret the bare seas at the breaking of day. the shift in the poem’s rhythm in the last stanza signifies a resolution to the conflict that the poem is a sonnet the speaker’s confusion an irregular rhyme scheme

Based on the information in the passage, what conclusion can the reader make?