Read the excerpt from narrative of the life of frederick douglass. and to cap the climax of their base ingratitude and fiendish barbarity, my grandmother, who was now very old, having outlived my old master and all his children, having seen the beginning and end of all of them, and her present owners finding she was of but little value, her frame already racked with the pains of old age, and complete fast stealing over her once active limbs, they took her to the woods, built her a little hut, put up a little mud chimney, and then made her welcome to the privilege of supporting herself there in perfect loneliness; thus virtually turning her out to die! how does douglass use imagery in the excerpt to emphasize how old and weak his grandmother is? he claims that the slaveholders are “virtually turning her out to die.” he points out that she is “supporting herself there in perfect loneliness.” he explains that the slaveholders found that “she was of little value.” he describes her body as being “racked with the pains of old age.”

B. He points out that she is “supporting herself there in perfect loneliness.”

Explanation:

Imagery is used in different writings to make a story interesting to the reader. It brings the reader close to the environment of narration. The imagery also makes the reader understand fully the surrounding under which the reader features the story. For instance, the above excert, the reader describe her grandmother’s situation with perfect loneliness to express how deep she was alone and needed somebody by her side even though she was growing very old. The description, therefore, takes the reader to the narrator’s psyche.

situational archetype describes the adventures of hero. the examples of situational archetypes are the quest, good vs evil, the task which represent respectively search, good forces, characters vs the evil ones and a certain job that must be done. from the given options, we cannot observe the subplot the beauty and the beast which is a correct answer for this question.

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themes and meanings

(comprehensive guide to drama)

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there are two central themes in  the miracle worker: that the human spirit can triumph over even the most daunting of disabilities and that a dedicated teacher can transform the lives of those with whom he or she comes into contact. these inspirational themes have long been personified in the widely known true-life relationship between helen keller and annie sullivan, but  the miracle worker  also dramatizes collateral issues that extend beyond the particular case. underlying helen’s process of learning basic principles of what annie terms “obedience” (decorum, etiquette, and hygiene), there are more universal lessons of self-governance—the inculcation of self-restraint instead of willfulness, the development of self-discipline instead of self-indulgence. only when these lessons have been mastered can helen begin to acquire language—which, annie says, “is to the mind more than light is to the eye.”