"(1) Old Benjamin, the donkey, seemed quite unchanged since the Rebellion. (2) He worked in the same slow obstinate way as he had done it in Jones's time, never shirking and never volunteering for extra work either. (3) When asked whether he was not happier now that Jones was gone, he would say only
"Donkeys live a long time. None of you has ever seen a dead donkey," and the others had to be content with this cryptic answer."

In Sentence 2, the author reveals the character of Old Benjamin through

actions
dialogue (his words)
dialogue (others' words)
narration

answers

i think it was freedom.

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serve the people! ,” smoothly translated by julia lovell, offers an initial sample of yan lianke’s writing to an english-speaking audience. a bluntly drawn, mildly erotic fable, it teases mao zedong by poking fun at a true believer who obeys the chairman’s precepts too literally. to a western sensibility, the broad strokes of yan lianke’s humor would seem to pose little risk of inciting rebellion, whether of the flesh or of the body politic. but then, part of the book’s attraction is that it doesn’t have a western sensibility. it lets the reader see — or rather, intuit — what jokes chinese officials don’t consider funny, and how very little it takes for a writer to be branded an incendiary in 21st-century china, more than three decades after the death of mao, a decade after the death of deng xiaoping and seven years since china entered the world trade organization, a move that would seem to signal a willingness (however wary) to mingle with the rest of the world.

stopping by woods on a snowy evening" is written in a very deliberate meter and rhyming scheme. first, the meter is iambic tetrameter, meaning that each line is composed of four iambs, or "dadum" syllables. this is clearly seen in the first lines of the poem: whose woods these are i think i know.

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