American mythologies touch on several themes. One theme is that the unique characteristics of American citizens contribute to their strength as a nation.

Select the two details from “Rip Van Winkle” that convey this theme.
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The Van Winkles are an example of everyday people who work hard to overcome adversity.

The characters’ attributes and faults make them representative of America’s struggles as a young nation.

Both Van Winkle and his wife share “larger than life” personalities and behaviors.

The characters’ traits, experiences, and conflicts make them both beloved and memorable

Select the sentence with an appositive phrase and a relative pronoun.

Match the definition to the word for a better understanding of the paragraph. 1 money does not buy happiness or security. 2john ringling, one of the five brothers of the ringling brothers circus, started out in 1884 with a trained horse and a performing bear. 3for over forty years, he worked hard at the family enterprise, bought up smaller circuses, and imported new acts. 4in the 1920s, he was rated as one of the world's wealthiest men and owned every sizable circus in the country. 5over 5,000 people were on his payroll, and over 240 railroad cars were in his retinue each time the circus moved. 6at the time of his death, however, he was a nervous, unhappy man; he was also bankrupt and beset by lawsuits. 7his carefully built circus empire passed into alien hands. 8all those years of work had turned to dust. 1. business organization alien 2. group beset 3. without funds to pay debts retinue 4. troubled or harassed enterprise 5. strange; belonging to another person, place, country, or thing bankrupt

Discuss the theme of outcasts in these chapters in at least two hundred words. what does it mean that the church takes in people that the clan rejects? how is nwoye an outcast? how does the clan treat the missionaries as outcasts?