Argument Technique in Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" Speech Answers

LizzieTurnerMrs. CobbReverend Buckminster

Based on the excerpt, which lines support the conclusion that Turner is willing to defy his father’s wishes and see Lizzie the next day? Check all that apply.

Read the excerpt from chapter 6 of Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy.Lizzie looked at him for a long time, tilting her head to one side as if trying to figure him out—which was what she was doing. "You're a strange person, you know that, Turner Buckminster? I wonder if you can see anything straight. What do you think your daddy would say if he saw us two standing out here right now? Or knew that I would be coming up to Mrs. Cobb's house just to hear you play?""He'd say hell and damnation. So you going to come?""I'll come. At high tide, when I can't be clamming anyway.""Then I'll see you tomorrow at high tide, Lizzie Bright.""Yes, you will," she said, and whistling softly, she turned toward the back of the yard. The sea breeze came down from the leaves and followed at her heels, jumping up now and again and frisking all around.Turner snuck back inside, as quiet as could be, thinking of high tide.

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Read the excerpt from chapter 6 of Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy."May I ask why? Or is this something else that wasn't intended to embarrass the new minister?""Because I wanted to know if it was true.""If what was true?""If Lizzie was lying to me. If all she wanted to do was to get me on her side so she wouldn't have to leave the island."Reverend Buckminster sighed. "It doesn't matter if it's true. It matters what people think. It matters that my congregation can tell me what to think when my son goes out to visit a Negro girl on Malaga Island. It doesn't matter at all how she got you out there.""It matters to me," Turner whispered."Speak up!"

Read the excerpt from chapter 6 of Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy."Is that you up there, laughing like a loon?"Lizzie. Lizzie Bright.He put his head out the window. "What are you doing here?" he called down."Well, I've missed you, too. I'm stealing chickens.""We don't have any chickens.""Your dog, then.""We don't have a dog.""I figured you didn't have a dog—or he was deaf as a post. What does a minister have to steal?""Books. Preaching books."She paused. "I guess you can keep those. I'll try somewhere else."

Read the excerpt from chapter 6 of Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy.It seemed to Turner less and less likely that he would be lighting out for the Territories anytime soon. But as the days went by and he settled into his imprisonment, he was comforted by one thing: who knew how, but he was more and more sure that Lizzie had not lied to him, and that Malaga was as real as real.And there was one other comfort, and it came from a surprising source. After three days of his absence, Mrs. Cobb appeared at the parsonage to ask if he had been sick. When she found out he wasn't, she asked if Turner might come to her house to play the organ for her. His mother agreed.Turner was not told how Reverend Buckminster came to agree to this, too, and he did not ask.Turner dawdled on his way down to her house each afternoon. Not that there was much to see. But there was the sea breeze, and the trees were starting to yellow and blush. So he dawdled until he came to the picket fence, and every day Mrs. Cobb was standing at the door waiting for him, scowling and sour.

In chapter 6 of Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy, it is apparent that Turner views Malaga Island as a positive place while Reverend Buckminster views it as a less respectable place than Phippsburg.

Read the excerpt from Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy.Reverend Buckminster sighed. "It doesn't matter if it's true. It matters what people think. It matters that my congregation can tell me what to think when my son goes out to visit a Negro girl on Malaga Island. It doesn't matter at all how she got you out there.""It matters to me," Turner whispered."Speak up!""It matters to me."

The author chose to tell Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy from the perspective of children rather than adults.