Which lines from the poem “facing it” best reflect the narrator’s struggle between his desire to maintain control and the strong emotions that he feels?

a. i’m stone. i’m flesh.
my clouded reflection eyes me

b. i turn that way—i’m inside
the vietnam veterans memorial

c. i touch the name andrew johnson;
i see the trap’s white flash.

d. brushstrokes flash, a red bird’s
wings cutting across my stare.

a. I’m stone. I’m flesh.  

My clouded reflection eyes me

The narrator describes himself as stone and then as flesh. As stone, he is in control of his emotions - rock hard. However, he struggles to maintain that control when he describes himself as flesh and his reflection being clouded. None of the other options show the struggle for him to maintain control. In option b it shows him inside the Memorial but not outside as well. In options c and d the white flash and red bird's wings cutting the image are significant, but they don't show his struggle.

A

Explanation:

idk

explanation:

im dum j.e

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assignment

analyzing characters

respond to the following questions in one paragraph for each. use specific examples from the text to support your responses.

1. there is a set of twins on the island named sam and eric. however, when describing them, golding regularly refers to them as samneric. how does this way of describing the twins relate to their behavior and the way that readers understand their characters? what examples of their behavior readers see that samneric is really the appropriate way to refer to them?

2. as the boys set out to search for the beast, ralph allows jack to lead the way, and he sinks to the back of the pack, " to have escaped responsibility for a time." what does this moment lead you to infer about ralph and about his feelings about being the group’s leader? what does this moment foreshadow?

3. while part of the party searching for the beast, simon realizes that the notion of the beast that the other boys have does not make sense. a beast sitting atop a mountain with claws, a beast who did not leave tracks, could have easily caught the twins. simon has a different picture of the beast: "there rose before his inward sight the picture of a human at once heroic and sick." how does this picture relate to the beast that samneric saw? how does it relate to what simon said earlier about the beast being "only us"?

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