The story "Just lather, thats all" 1.What is the central conflict of the story? Is it a dilemma? (Look up the parameters of dilemma if you need help with this distinction)
2.What considerations tempt the barber to kill Captain Torres? What considerations motivate him not to? How would you characterize his motivations (selfish, admirable, rationalizing, etc.)?
3.What is the difference between a revolutionary and a murderer?
4.In the story, the barber thinks of what people might say if he killed the captain: ‘he slit his throat while shaving him—a coward.’ Consider the significance of this remark.
5.Would the barber have been a ‘murderer’ or a ‘hero’ if he killed the captain?
6.There is a strong element of suspense in this story. Consider how delay, foreshadowing, and timing develop this suspense; find specific examples of each of these techniques.
7.What is the theme of this story? Could this theme be considered a ‘moral’ or didactic lesson? Would the theme of the story change if the barber had killed the captain?
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Select the correct text in the passage. which sentence in this excerpt from abraham lincoln's second inaugural address conveys that he wanted the us civil war to end as soon as possible? neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with or even before the conflict itself should cease. each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. both read the same bible and pray to the same god, and each invokes his aid against the other. it may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just inging their bread from the sweat of other men's faces, but let us judge not, that we be not judged. the prayers of both could not be answered. that of neither has been answered fully. the almighty has his own purposes. "woe unto the world because of offenses, for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh" if we shall suppose that american slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of god, must needs come, but which, having continued through his appointed time, he now wills to remove, and that he gives to both north and south this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living god always ascribe to him? fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. yet, if god wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said "the judgments of the lord are true and righteous altogether." reset next

Preview the following sentence and identify the meaning of the underlined word in the sentence. the brain was riddled with holes, it looked like a sponge. a. bridled c. perforated b. pierced d. b and c select the best answer from the choices provided a b c d mark this and return

The attitude the speaker in this poem holds toward himself can best be described as