Read the following excerpt from frederick douglass’s “learning to read and write” and answer the question.

as i writhed under it, i would at times feel that learning to read had been a curse rather than a blessing. it opened my eyes to the horrible pit, but to no ladder upon which to get out. in moments of agony, i envied my fellow slaves for their stupidity. i have often wished myself a beast. i preferred the condition of the meanest reptile to my own.

which statement best describes how the author’s experience has shaped his point of view?

he is finally able to speak his mind to everyone around him.
the strongest effect on his literacy is the light it casts on the world he already knows.
he longs to be free and become an abolitionist.
the struggles he faces are almost insurmountable.

Hurry 100 points consider the speakers in "the raven" and the speaker in "the song of wandering aengus."write two paragraphs to compare and contrast the voice in these two poems. how does the poet give the speaker in each poem a distinctive voice? what effect does this voice have in each poem?

Theme is question 26 options: the way the story is presented. overarching ideas that are presented in the story. the author�s message that he or she is communicating to readers. the way the story makes the reader feel.

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.’”