Read the excerpt below from a long way gone by ishmael beah and answer the question that follows. the four of us had started a rap and dance group when i was eight. we were first introduced to rap music during one of our visits to mobimbi, a quarter where the foreigners who worked for the same american company as my father lived. we often went to mobimbi to swim in a pool and watch the huge color television and the white people who crowded the visitors’ recreational area. one evening a music video that consisted of a bunch of young black fellows talking really fast came on the television. the four of us sat there mesmerized by the song, trying to understand what the black fellows were saying. . i was impressed that the black fellows knew how to speak english really fast, and to the beat. what do the details in setting reveal about beah’s personality?

In shakespeare’s hamlet what word can be substituted for allusion in the phrase the illusion is that not only does larry us die as expected but hamlet is doomed to die by the poison on his own sword as

As you have learned, epic heroes experience trials along their journeys. using your knowledge from beowulf, create a trial you believe an epic hero like beowulf might face. you will need to write a description of the trial using the aspects of a narrative. the trial can be anything you imagine, meaning you can test the hero in any way you see fit. be creative and have fun with this! let your creativity flow. focus on key attributes of beowulf and use his attributes to create a trial that would truly test him. since beowulf is very strong, a trial involving strength and endurance might be to easy. try thinking outside the box to create a trial that would truly test the hero of the geats. examples of beowulf’s attributes: couragous, loyal, strong, persistant, honorable, confident try to use one or multiples of these attribute when designing your trial. a good way to think of this activity is that you are a hunger games game designer. what could you make that would stump beowulf

What is one possible theme for the poem forgetfulness