Read the excerpt from "Dwaina Brooks.”Then one afternoon, Dwaina talked with a young man who had been without a home for a long time."What do you need?" she asked him."I need a job and a permanent home," he replied."Well, I can't give you that," she answered impatiently. "I don't have a job either. Don't you need anything else?""Yeah. I would love a really good meal again."
Read the excerpt from "Dwaina Brooks.”Dwaina's sisters, Stephanie, sixteen, and Crystal, nine, already had aprons tied around their waists. Dwaina turned on the radio, and they all formed an assembly line and dug in. Gail threw chicken into three skillets and got them all going at once. Dwaina slapped meat on open slices of bread and covered them with mayo. Crystal wrapped sandwiches and stuffed sacks. Dwaina looked on proudly as the corner of the kitchen began to fill up with sacks. It looked like a lot of meals.
Read the excerpt from "Dwaina Brooks.”Coupons helped cut the prices for sandwich wrapping, cookies, and mayonnaise. Dwaina's uncle got them discount lunch meats from the store where he used to work. Thursday night was bargain night at the bakery in nearby Lancaster. They drove away with six big loaves of day-old bread for $1.78. "Mama, do you think anyone at the shelter will really eat day-old bread?" Dwaina asked. "We eat it," Gail replied. "If it don't kill us, it won't kill them."The baker gave them twenty free boxes, too, when he heard how they would be used. Dwaina's aunts and uncles brought over huge sacks of chips and big bottles of salad dressing.
Read the excerpt from "Binding Memories.”Bound by a spine strong enough to hold entire worlds
Read the excerpt from "Binding Memories.”Bound by a spine strong enough to hold entire worlds of information and dreams,history and invention.
Read the excerpt from "Binding Memories.”"Ah, the romantic soul!”said my parents skeptically,worried that my business would fail,that I was behind the times.
Which excerpt from "Binding Memories” contains imagery that helps the reader understand why the speaker loves books?
In "Binding Memories,” a book’s spine serves as an extended metaphor for the speaker’s
Read the passage from The Odyssey - Teiresias.‘Then a seaborne deathsoft as this hand of mist will come upon you when you are wearied out with rich old age,your country folk in blessed peace around you.And all this shall be just as I foretell.’
Which is the best comparison of tone in these two essays on genetically modified food?
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