Does the narrator seem at the end of the story to have accepted his lot? Doyou find the tone hopeful or forlorn?
What will be an ideal response?
- The answer may depend on one’s definition of accepted. He has certainly accepted his fate in the sense that he is resigned to its inevitability: “I know that light is not for me, save that of the moon over the rock tombs of Neb, nor any gaiety save the unnamed feasts of Nitokris beneath the Great Pyramid” (par. 14). He claims in the first paragraph that he is “strangely content” and says in the next-to-last one that “in my new wildness and freedom I almost welcome the bitterness of alienage.” But is there not in all of this a hint of, as it were, whistling past the graveyard? Note the words almost and bitterness in the just-quoted passage. For all that these passages evoke the bravado of the Byronic hero proudly spewing his curses upon the world that has cursed him, there is an unmistakable air of sadness and deep, ineradicable hurt at the conclusion of the story. In the view of many, this is a projection of Lovecraft’s sense of himself as an other, an outsider set apart from ordinary human society and its norms.
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a. accessory e. depression i. latitude m. ridicule b. appropriate f. domestic j. nurture n. subsidy c. coarse g. idiosyncrasy k. opaque o. transparent d. deplete h. incorporate l. perceptive p. vindicate A necklace is a(n) _____ that many women enjoy wearing.
Te aconseja que / prepararte con esmero para los exámenes
What will be an ideal response?
Es importante que ustedes dos (buscan / busquen) algo que tienen en común.
A. buscan B. busquen
The primary purpose of checkpoints is to
a. provide a preview of the text. b. generate guide questions. c. let you assess your learning before continuing. d. create a mental outline of the text.