Read the excerpt from "how i learned english.” i played on till dusk missing flies and pop-ups and grounders and calling out in desperation things like "yours” and "take it,” but doing all right, tugging at my cap in just the right way, crouching low, my feet set. "hum baby” sweetly on my lips. the reader can tell that this excerpt is part of the poem’s resolution, because the speaker finally feels a sense of belonging. finally learns how to play baseball. no longer wants to get home before dusk. no longer tries to catch the ball.

The excerpt is from "How I Learned English" written by Gregory Djanikian. It is a poem based upon a boy who is struggling for playing baseball efficiently, after shifting to America.

The poem tells about the boys' attitude towards the struggle that is he laughs at his failure and still tries to play more.

The given excerpt is from the part of the poem's resolution because the speaker finally feels a sense of belonging.

Reason:

From the lines of the excerpt-

These lines tell that the boy is comfortable in playing the game after he has set his cap in the right way, and set his feet on the ground in the correct position to play.

Therefore as per the excerpt, it is clear that the boy is feeling the sense of the game as his own belongings.

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in the short story the slip-over sweater by jesse stuart, the main character and narrator shan is friends with grace, an intelligent girl he has known since childhood and with whom he used to be in love.

at the beginning of the story, shan believes he’s no longer in love with grace, but loves jo-anne instead. in order to buy a slip-over sweater and have jo-anne wear it so that the other students would know she loved him too, shan takes a loan at the bank.

while jo-anne is wearing shan’s sweater, his friend grace starts to wear another popular boy’s one, roy’s sweater. because of that, the other students begin to pay attention to grace and compliment her perseverance and effort. they admire her for walking 5 miles to school every day, despite the weather, and still getting the best grades. shan, who knows all of that for a fact, says, as the narrator, ‘and i knew she had the durability and the toughness of a storm-battered mountain oak.’ he compares his friend’s strength – not only physical, but also of character – to an oak tree, whose wood is known for being sturdy.

as the story goes on, shan changes his behavior out of concern for the debt he has to pay at the bank. his new girlfriend jo-anne never asks him what is wrong nor offers any sort of . instead, she breaks up with shan for not being as fun as she thought he was supposed to be. grace, however, not only asks about shan’s problem, but him make the money he needs. shan can’t but notice how different the girls are and what a wonderful person grace is.   even though he used to find jo-anne prettier at the beginning of the story, he now says, ‘grace was as beautiful as our mountain was in april, prettier than a blossom of wild phlox or a mountain daisy.’ his comparing grace to a mountain or something that exists on a mountain (such as a mountain oak or daisy) certainly has important meaning since shan loves the mountain and everything about it and he knows the mountain thoroughly. shan also loves and knows grace as completely as he does the mountain.