Question: What does it mean to "be free"?
Quick Write : Born Free: Children and the Struggle for Human Rights
Consider class discussions, videos, and the story Born Free as you think about the prompt. Record
your thoughts in the box. This initial response will help you complete your essay at the end of the unit.
You should clearly state a top and main idea. Your response should support the main idea with
definitions and examples.
PROMPT: What does it mean to “be free"? (5-6 sentences)
Fice
Able to opes
yourself

b)metaphor

explanation:

when reading the sentence carefully it says,"hope is a thing with feathers" it's like saying: hope is a thing like feathers

get what i'm saying? instead of using a smilie like or as they use "with"

it would be nice enough if i got .

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themes and meanings

(comprehensive guide to drama)

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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.”

b. our party quickly made its way into the cave / but we failed to find our host [the cyclops] himself inside.