Read this excerpt from "Gravity" by Judith Ortiz Cofer.
"Lock the door behind me, will you, Elenita," she said, her
voice soft and sad. I nodded as she walked away without a
glance back at me.
An hour or so later I found myself looking through my
closet for a reasonable compromise between taffeta and
denim.
Which statement best describes the intended aesthetic impact of this
excerpt?
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A. By having Elenita's mother leave without looking at her, the author
rebukes Elenita, leaving the reader disappointed at her behavior.
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B. By describing the voice of Elenita's mother as soft and sad, the
author emphasizes her hurt, leaving the reader sympathetic to her.
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C. By having Elenita look for a compromise between the fabrics, the
author emphasizes her remorse.
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D. By showing Elenita to have a change of heart about going to the
dance, the author emphasizes the coming of age theme.

Me which best explains how the viewpoint in the greenberg interview differed from that in the informational text on thurgood marshall. a. the informational article provides an insider's view of the brown vs board of education case; the perspective of the greenberg interview is more distant.

“heartwork each day is born with a sunrise and ends in a sunset, the same way we open our eyes to see the light, and close them to hear the dark. you have no control over how your story begins or ends. but by now, you should know that all things have an ending. every spark returns to darkness. every sound returns to silence. and every flower returns to sleep with the earth. the journey of the sun and moon is predictable. but yours, is your ultimate art.” ― suzy kassem what does this quote mean to you? and why? i'm not looking for anything in particular, i just wanted to know. : )

Read the excerpt from the land. in the late afternoon i did the same, but all the time i was on the stallion, i was aware that mitchell was watching me. he had appeared on the edge of the woods and had just stood there watching ghost wind and me as we went round and round the meadow. finally, on one of our turns past him, he said: "s'pose you thinkin' you a real somebody 'cause you can ride that stallion." i looked down at mitchell and stopped, knowing that despite our understanding, he was itching for a fight with me. now, i don't know what possessed me in that moment to say the next thing i did. maybe i was feeling guilty that because i was my daddy's son, i could ride ghost wind. maybe it was that, but it wasn't out of fear i said what i said. i no longer was afraid of mitchell. "you want to ride him? " i asked. mitchell took a step backward. it was obvious he hadn't expected me to say that. "you know i can't ride him," he said. "your white daddy'd kill me." "you want to ride him? " i asked again. mitchell looked at the stallion, then at me. "so, what if i do? " what intrinsic motivation does the author most likely intend the reader to infer from the passage? paul is motivated by his need to have mitchell praise his riding skills. mitchell is motivated by his need to have paul praise his riding skills. paul is motivated by jealousy and wishes he had free time like mitchell. mitchell is motivated by jealousy and wishes he could ride the horse.