By: Tracy Wilson 1 in the winter of 1976, when I was only four years old, my family moved into a modest home in a growing Greenville
neighborhood. Upon a slope on one side of the house, stood a dozen tree sprigs looking rather bald and barren. By springtime,
however, the little trees began growing taller and bushier by the day. Upon exploring the hillside in mid-July, I noticed hundreds
of quarter-sized, pinkish orbs dangling, daring me to pick just one. Of course, I did.
2Plums? I questioned. Yes, plums she reiterated. She explained that these were not the same as the deeply colored, voluptuous
kind I had seen in the market. These were smaller and much sourer variety>
3 Knowing that they were safe, I ate enough that one afternoon to give me a stomachache that lasted two days. As the plums
became riper and sweeter, my grandma and I picked enough to fill two enormous buckets She taught me to make jelly from the
tiny fruits which we could enjoy all winter long
4 Years later, I was driving down a long, winding highway when I noticed several wild plum trees Lining the hedgerow. I had to
pull over. I picked a heaping handful As I sat there on the side of the highway, I asked in the tartness of my childhood fruit and
in the sweetness of the memory of making jelly with the greatest woman I have ever known
What is the main idea of this selection?
A)
moving to new places
B)
the power of memories
drudgery in gardening
D
dangers of wild fruits

biographical remarks present the shifting perception and re-interpretation of figures projected by the authors, or by the society represented by the authors. the portrayals in biographical accounts thus reflect the turning view-of-value in course of history. this paper particularly explores the ways in which “heretical” figures are represented in their biographical accounts, focusing on arabic zindīq poets who flourished in the 2nd century a.h. and are known for their extreme or heretic behavior. it will be discussed that the marks of their heretical deeds are presented in different ways, and the actuality of their activity, such as the association with the early theological thinkers (or mutakallimūn in arabic), is occasionally replaced by more narrativized and unrealistic anecdotes in later sources, the tales being reproduced to underscore the value of poets such as humor or quick-wittedness. the anecdotes also can highlight the qualities of their opponents who appear as their refuters. the chronological tracing of their biographical information from multiple sources reveals the fluctuating value of discourses of “heresy,” mirroring the turning religious reality and the imagined quality of the figures lived in the early period. the paper eventually aims to historically contextualize the functions of “speaking-about-heretics” as a subject of narratives, which works as a tool for writers to express manifold contemporar

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those are the two i know right off the bat.