and please do actual answers to! A student is writing an essay about how Greg changes from the beginning of “The Treasure of Lemon Brown” to the end. What should the student do during the prewriting process to help trace how Greg changes?

Create a chart that lists Greg’s traits at the beginning of the story, the important conflicts in the middle of the story, and his traits at the end of the story
Develop a thesis statement that summarizes all of the important conflicts that Greg experiences in the beginning, middle, and end of the story.
Locate and paraphrase several pieces of evidence from the text that show Greg’s traits at the beginning and end of the story.
Develop a conclusion that provides strong evidence from the text about what Greg is like at the beginning, the middle, and the end of the story.

a, b, and c are all correct.

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themes and meanings

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there are two central themes in  the miracle worker: that the human spirit can triumph over even the most daunting of disabilities and that a dedicated teacher can transform the lives of those with whom he or she comes into contact. these inspirational themes have long been personified in the widely known true-life relationship between helen keller and annie sullivan, but  the miracle worker  also dramatizes collateral issues that extend beyond the particular case. underlying helen’s process of learning basic principles of what annie terms “obedience” (decorum, etiquette, and hygiene), there are more universal lessons of self-governance—the inculcation of self-restraint instead of willfulness, the development of self-discipline instead of self-indulgence. only when these lessons have been mastered can helen begin to acquire language—which, annie says, “is to the mind more than light is to the eye.”