Stay, ship from Thames, with fettered sails in Sydney Cove this ebb of tide; your gear untangled from the gales, imprisoned at your anchor ride. The portly gentlemen ,who are the pillars of the land, come down and greet the Newcomes voyaged far to make a name in Sydney Town. The redcoats, too, with shouldered arms, marshal pale wretches from the hold, who, cramped in tempests and in calms. have learned to do as they are told. Rex Ingamells 8 Another word for 'fettered' could be A loose. B untied. C furled. D tattered.
9 The gentlemen who met the ship were A newcomers. B energetic. C stout. D lazy.
10 The redcoats also A had come a long way. B left their arms on board. C were pale and ill. D were suffering from seasickness.
11 The 'wretches' A were hard to manage B had learnt to be obedient. C were loud and boisterous at reaching shore. D spent most of their time on deck.​

(i'm bad at sudden poems so don't yell at me i'm trying to represent sadness or something like that but its real hard)

at the age of 4, she thought everything was better.

she was innocent, she was joyful, despite the predictions about the bad weather.

at the age of 10, she started to figure things out.

in life, in its meaning, she started to doubt.

at the age of 14, she was filled with depression, anxiety and fear,

that nobody cared about her, and death was drawing near.

at the age of 17, her sleeves got longer, her will got shorter, until she couldn't take it anymore.

she left this earth with a rope, chair and to the heavens she would soar.

what are the options?

the significance of the title, "the passing", is related to the fact that the main characters, who are three african-american descendant women, are passing as white. this means that, because of their light-coloured skins they look like white women. one of the three friends, clare, is married to a white man and she lives in a white community and she has never told her husband that she is black. the title can easily be connected to the idea of pretending to be someone you are not and of losing your real identity in order to be accepted by society.