Read the passage. summer vacation everyone kept telling me that a summer trip to hawaii would be the highlight of my summer. it was the worst week of my life. my big sister sobbed the whole way to the airport because she would miss her boyfriend. what an overreaction! the trip was six days long! he’d be there when she got back, but she was convinced she had a ticket to planet loneliness, not maui. after listening to her cry for six hours, i wanted to send her somewhere else, too. she started to cheer up when she saw the beaches, but that didn’t last long. our twin little brothers, who often egged each other on to bad decisions, made possibly their worst choice ever: testing how many days they could spend at the beach without wearing any sunscreen. not even one full day before they were so lobster-red that we had to go to the emergency clinic! after that, the beach was off limits. it was totally ridiculous that i couldn’t go swimming just because they were too silly to wear sunscreen. i wasn’t going to make that mistake. but it didn’t matter. mom decreed, “no beach for anybody.” so lucky me, i spent my vacation watching hawaiian tv and eating take-out food, rubbing lotion on my brothers’ blisters and watching my sister sniffle and text her boyfriend. what a vacation! next time i visit hawaii, i think i’ll go alone. how does the narrator’s choice of words express her attitude toward this trip? (a) “lucky me” and “highlight of my summer” show how much she enjoyed the trip. (b) “totally ridiculous” and “decreed” suggest that the trip would have been better if their mom wasn’t quite so strict. (c) “a ticket to planet loneliness” explains how much the narrator missed her best friend during the trip. (d) phrases like “worst week of my life” and “next time…i’ll go alone” demonstrate how much she disliked the trip.

The correct answer is D. Phrases like “worst week of my life” and “Next time…I’ll go alone” demonstrate how much she disliked the trip.

Explanation:

In writing and therefore in narratives, the attitude of the narrator towards the situation or topic he or she is writing about is known as tone. The tone or attitude in texts can mainly be identified by analyzing the use of the language of the author or narrator and the words he or she uses to refer to the main topic or subject. In the excerpt presented the narrator is describing a trip to Hawaii and all the events that took place during this trip.

In general terms the narrator explains the trip was not what he or she expected as the older sister of the narrator missed her boyfriend and because of this she cried a lot during the trip; also the narrator's twin brothers got sunburnt after not using any sunscreen and because of this, the mom decided any member of the family could go to the beach, which meant the narrator had to spend the rest of the vacations indoors. This general idea is emphasized by the words the narrator chooses to describe the situation, especially the phrases "it was the worst week of my life", "it was totally ridiculous" and "Next time I visit Hawaii, I think I'll go alone". Thus, the attitude of the narrator during this trip is shown in the phrases like  "worst week of my life” and “Next time…I’ll go alone" that explains the narrator was not happy with the trip and mainly dislike it.

to kill a mockingbird basically is about a lawyer who goes against everything in a racist society like at the time of this novel, to defend a black man accused of sexual abuse. in the bible there are cases like that of joseph, who was accused by the woman of potifar, for a crime similar to that of tim robbinson, of that novel (genesis 39: 1-20). at this point we see that god also provides the escape to joseph, who was accused unjustly, but in his time, and through his attitude, his faith was not shaken, and god provided the solution. the perspective of god also written in the bible and not pay evil with evil. (ephesians 4: 32, 1 thessalonians 5: 15, 1 peter 3: 9). atticus, the lawyer, demonstrated during this lee novel, empathy, love of neighbor, understood the situation of this accused man. he went against everything in that society, and stood in favor of that man, for the injustice committed. this shows the empathy, the love taught by christ, in some passages that speak of love and justice in the sermon of the beatitudes (especially verses 6 and 7 of matthew 5).

"the monkey's paw" is a rare story in that the theme is actually stated in the story. sgt. maj. morris tells the whites that the old fakir who put the spell on the paw said, "fate rules people's lives and those who interfere with fate do so to their sorrow." the message is a warning, but mr. white doesn't believe it. even though sgt. maj. morris makes it clear that he tried wishing with unfortunate results and he tries to throw the paw on the fire,   mr. white makes a wish for 200 pounds only to find that he receives the money when herbert dies in a factory accident. according to the fakir, then, because mr. white had wished for something he should not have had, his son lost his life.

the second wish that mrs. white encourages him to make is for herbert's return--one week after his death. when the strange knocking begins at the door during the windy night, mr. white panicks, believing that the previously dead but still mangled herbert could have walked home from the cemetary and is now at the door. because he fears what his wife will find if she opens the door, mr. white makes his third wish--for the noise to stop.

therefore, he uses his three wishes and to his sorrow, loses his son and disappoints his wife, who fervently believed that their son was at the door. she wanted him back, regardless of his condition.

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