Klosterman writes that, "…it suddenly occurred to me that there would always be road construction--not always on this particular road, but somewhere" (from "billy sim"). that quote has always stuck with me, and it made me think about what would happen if construction just went away, what would that feel like? it made me think about how cities would look, how foreign it would feel if there wasn't construction happening around me, particularly in downtowns and highways. that then got me thinking a different question, but similar. and this is your question--what would happen if all the pigeons in the world, everywhere, went away? like construction, pigeons are everywhere, all of the time; so i'm wondering what you would think the world would feel like without pigeons? my biggest curiosity here is how cities, particularly downtowns wherever you live or have lived, would feel. would they feel different? do pigeons, in any way at all, make you feel at peace in the world? i know most people hate them or at least think they are a nuisance, but what would you do without them? do you take pigeons for granted? if you can, i would like you to go to a park, or go downtown, and stare at the pigeons, and think about what you really think about them. do they make cities have life, do they give cities meaning? without them, what would that mean, how would that feel? be very, very specific. this question will likely result in you not using much of the text to you, and that's okay. i'm more interested in your own thoughts on this.

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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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well, number 1, the 1920s was not economically prosperous until the start of the lend-lease act, which employed large amounts of people in producing equipment for the allies.

b. world war ii is your answer, because wwi had already ended at 1918, and the cold war was after 1945.

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