Why might a writer use the passive voice? Choose three answers.
Using Night by Elie Wiesel, identify and explain at least one fact and one opinion that support the following theme: “When faced with extreme brutality, a person can still choose to remain human.”
Responses may vary but should contain some or all of the following information: In Night by Elie Wiesel, there are many facts and opinions that support the theme that a person, when faced with extreme brutality, can still choose to remain human. One fact that supports this theme is the following excerpt: “He was a young Pole, who was smiling at us. He began to talk to us, and despite our weariness, we listened attentively.” This is a fact because dialogue of other characters is a tool that authors of memoirs use to include facts. This excerpt reflects the theme because this young Pole is the man in charge of the barracks where Wiesel will be staying, and unlike all the other people that Wiesel has encountered in the concentration camp up to this point, this young man is kind to them. One opinion that supports this theme is the following excerpt: “Those were the first human words.” This is an opinion because the author commentary is a tool that authors of memoirs use to include opinions. This excerpt reflects the theme because Wiesel is making the observation that the words spoken (those by the young Pole) were “human,” a quality that most of the other people in charge at the concentration camp seem to lack.
In “Initiation,” one example of a character vs. self conflict is when Millicent
Read the excerpt from "A Quilt of a Country."America is an improbable idea. A mongrel nation built of ever-changing disparate parts, it is held together by a notion, the notion that all men are created equal, though everyone knows that most men consider themselves better than someone. "Of all the nations in the world, the United States was built in nobody's image," the historian Daniel Boorstin wrote. That's because it was built of bits and pieces that seem discordant, like the crazy quilts that have been one of its great folk-art forms, velvet and calico and checks and brocades. Out of many, one. That is the ideal.The reality is often quite different, a great national striving consisting frequently of failure. Many of the oft-told stories of the most pluralistic nation on earth are stories not of tolerance, but of bigotry. Slavery and sweatshops, the burning of crosses and the ostracism of the other. Children learn in social-studies class and in the news of the lynching of blacks, the denial of rights to women, the murders of gay men. It is difficult to know how to convince them that this amounts to "crown thy good with brotherhood," that amid all the failures is something spectacularly successful. Perhaps they understand it at this moment [in the aftermath of 9/11], when enormous tragedy, as it so often does, demands a time of reflection on enormous blessings.
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