Read the excerpt below from “at the hearth” by laura esquivel and answer the question that follows. and so, i was mortified to realize that my daughter wasn’t paying attention. instead, she was staring blankly at cartoons, forsaking the hypnotic power of fire for that of the television; the memory of the tribe, for commercials. i was so shocked, i couldn’t speak! thousands of questions robbed me of my sleep. what had happened? where had i gone wrong? what kind of society had we created? what had we women achieved by leaving the home? yes, we had won rights that belonged to us and we had earned recognition for our intellectual activity and a better place in the world, but with great sadness i was forced to accept that none of the revolutions we participated in had managed to create a proper system for the creation of the new man. what does this excerpt reveal about gender roles?

Which statement best describes the use of satire in this passage? read the passage from chapter 7 of animal farm as clover looked down the hillside her eyes filled with tears. if she could have spoken her thoughts, it would have been to say that this was not what they had aimed at when they had set themselves years ago to work for the overthrow of the human race. these scenes of terror and slaughter were not what they had looked forward to on that night when old major first stirred them to rebellion. if she herself had had any picture of the future, it had been of a society of animals set free from hunger and the whip, all equal, each working according to his capacity, the strong protecting the weak, as she had protected the lost brood of ducklings with her foreleg on the night of major's speech. instead-she did not know why—they had come to a time when no one dared speak his mind, when fierce, growling dogs roamed everywhere, and when you had to watch your comrades torn to pieces after confessing to shocking crimes. there was no thought of rebellion or parody is used to illustrate the impact of stalin's purge. ridicule is used to show the gullibility of the russian citizens. reversal is used to show how clover, representing the people, has changed ideals. personification is used to show the reader stalin's thoughts and feelings