Responding... 1. Everyone has certain strengths, or gifts, that commitment and hard work can
help to realize. Write a journal entry about the gifts that you possess, and
what you would have to do to realize them. Think about any sacrifices that
you might have to make, and what those sacrifices might mean to your life.
Do you think you could give the kind of commitment that was asked of
Hannah?
Discuss with a partner the reasons Hannah made the choice that she did. Do
you think it was the right choice? Outline the alternative for her art what it
might mean to her life.
3. This short story uses subtle foreshadowing throughout to prepare the reader
for events in the plot and for the ending. How is each of the following events
foreshadowed?
a) Tante Rose's great fear of bicycles
b) the photograph appearing in the newspaper
c) the decision Hannah makes
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Read the excerpt from "home front diary." jimmy simmons stopped by today to tell me that he had enlisted in the army. he asked me if i would write to him, and i said i would. i told him that i've been writing to my uncle arthur and susan's cousin john for about a year, and as an experienced correspondent i had some advice about all the censorship. "don't write down any information about your location or the number of soldiers in your unit because the censors will cut all of that away," i said. "in my experience, loose lips not only sink ships, they make letters look like snowflake decorations! ” well, he belly laughed over that one. how is the author's perspective different from jimmy's? the author has been to war and she can give jimmy advice. jimmy has become a soldier and does not believe the author’s advice. the author has experience writing to soldiers but jimmy does not. jimmy has more experience at letter writing than the author.

Which section of the passage illustrates mrs. dalloway's feelings of emptiness caused by her social identity

Why do playwrights use to tell the actors how to move and behave? diolougestage actions