Excerpt from Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift

Identify which details are most important or less important for an objective summary of the excerpt.

I saw our men already got into the
boat, and rowing for life to the ship.
I observed a huge creature walking
after them in the sea, as fast as he
could . . .
and I walked alone about a mile on
the other side, where I observed the
country all barren and rocky.
I found it fully cultivated . . .
I durst not stay to see the issue of the
adventure; but ran as fast as I could
the way I first went . . .

Identify which details are most important or less important for an objective summary of the excerpt.

I saw our men already got into the
boat, and rowing for life to the ship.
I observed a huge creature walking
after them in the sea, as fast as he
could . . .
and I walked alone about a mile on
the other side, where I observed the
country all barren and rocky.
I found it fully cultivated . . .
I durst not stay to see the issue of the
adventure; but ran as fast as I could
the way I first went . . .

Write an article to be published in a national newspaper on the effect of examinational mal practice

98 points!

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"?

no plagarism

me

they both lost a woman they loved named lenore

they believed they interracted with a talking raven

they became orphaned at a young age.