Identify the point of disagreement between the two viewpoints. Then write a sentence that synthesizes this information to form a conclusion about the topic. Viewpoint 1:
Human cultures around the world feature groups of people working together within communities. Though there are those who have been able to live in the wild independently, their ability to take care of themselves probably came from being raised by and interacting with other people. Humans are not like some badgers or jaguars that live and hunt alone. Instead, humans are highly social creatures, similar to dolphins and gorillas. We build extended social networks that allow us to live peacefully and comfortably without having to do everything ourselves.

Viewpoint 2:
Beyond being fed and protected as infants and young children, people don't need communities to survive. The sole function of a community is to pass on and enforce social customs, such as manners and traditions. These customs are not necessary for a human's survival. Plenty of people have gone out into the world alone to survive off the land and discover new things. The skills of survival are innate — we will find ways to keep ourselves alive, whether we're part of a community or not.

two factors or characteristics of a chapter that might make it difficult to read would be words i don't understand, or if i don't fully understand what's going on in the chapter. strategies i can use to get through the difficult material would be a dictionary, and re-reading previous chapters to get a better grasp of what the author is trying to say.

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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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