Read the excerpt from “the scarlet ibis.” daddy, mama, and i went back to the dining-room table, but we watched doodle through the open door. he took out a piece of string from his pocket and, without touching the ibis, looped one end around its neck. slowly, while singing softly “shall we gather at the river,” he carried the bird around to the front yard and dug a hole in the flower garden, next to the petunia bed. now we were watching him through the front window, but he didn’t know it. his awkwardness at digging the hole with a shovel whose handle was twice as long as he was made us laugh, and we covered our mouths with our hands so he wouldn’t hear. when doodle came into the dining room, he found us seriously eating our cobbler. he was pale and lingered just inside the screen door. “did you get the scarlet ibis buried? ” asked daddy. doodle didn’t speak but just nodded his head. which example of sensory imagery from the excerpt best shows that doodle is upset about the death of the scarlet ibis? he took out a piece of string from his pocket and, without touching the ibis, looped one end around its neck. slowly, while singing softly “shall we gather at the river,” he carried the bird around to the front yard and dug a hole in the flower garden, next to the petunia bed. when doodle came into the dining room, he found us seriously eating our cobbler. he was pale and lingered just inside the screen door.

Javier is writing a literary analysis of the secret garden. read this introduction to his essay. frances burnett’s “the secret garden” explores the challenges of a sickly, self-centered little girl named mary lennox. after mary’s parents die of cholera, she moves from india to england to live at her uncle’s estate in yorkshire. while living at the old estate, mary discovers an abandoned garden that belonged to her deceased aunt. tending to the neglected garden brings mary joy, and her health improves. through mary’s transformation, burnett presents nature as a symbol of rebirth and healing. which piece of textual evidence should javier use to support the claim made in the introduction? a. “‘it’s in the garden no one can go into,’ she said to herself. ‘it’s the garden without a door. he lives in there. how i wish i could see what it is like! ’” b. “in india she had always felt hot and too languid to care much about anything. the fact was that the fresh wind from the moor had begun to blow the cobwebs out of her young brain and to waken her up a little.” c. “mary felt lonelier than ever when she knew she was no longer in the house. she went out into the garden as quickly as possible, and the first thing she did was to run round and round the fountain flower garden ten times.” d. “‘it isn’t a quite dead garden,’ she cried out softly to herself. ‘even if the roses are dead, there are other things alive.’”