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Read the excerpt from The Land.I didn't figure that was what was best for us though, and neither did Robert. The next night after that trip, I spent the night in my daddy's house, as I sometimes did. While Robert and I were waiting for sleep, Robert said to me, "Our daddy talk to you about sending us off to school?""Yeah," I replied, and we both were silent."Well," said Robert as the moonlight slipped over us, "I don't want to go. I don't want to go off to any Savannah school without you."

Read this student draft about The Land, Part 2In part 2 of The Land by Mildred D. Taylor, Paul covers for Mitchell by taking the blame for Mitchell’s mistake. This brings the two together. Paul explains, "Mitchell nodded, and that was as close as Mitchell Thomas came to thanking me and as close as I came to accepting his thanks. But after that, things began to change between Mitchell and me.”

Read the student draft about The Land, Part 4.In part 4 of The Land by Mildred D. Taylor, Paul, Mitchell, and Paul’s father go to East Texas. Paul successfully rides a horse to win a wager for his father, but he is upset by how his father treats him. He voices his frustration when he says, "Well, you didn't tell that man from Alabama anything about you being my daddy, just that I was 'your boy'! Figure that says more than anything else!”

Read the student draft about The Land, Part 3.In part 3 of The Land by Mildred D. Taylor, Paul learns that he will study carpentry in the fall, while Robert will attend a boys’ school. Paul is concerned that these plans will threaten his closeness to his brother. He says, "We knew, too, our daddy figured sending us off to school was what was best; still I couldn't help but feel something was being wedged between Robert and me.”

Read the excerpt from The Land.I loved my daddy. I loved my brothers too. But in the end it was Mitchell Thomas and I who were most like brothers, with a bond that couldn't be broken. The two of us came into Mississippi together by way of East Texas, and that was when we were still boys, long after we had come to our understanding of each other. Seeing that we were a long way from our Georgia home and both of us being strangers here in Mississippi, the two of us depended on each other and became as family.

Read the excerpt from The Land. I looked down at Mitchell and stopped, knowing that despite our understanding, he was itching for a fight with me. Now, I don't know what possessed me in that moment to say the next thing I did. Maybe I was feeling guilty that because I was my daddy's son, I could ride Ghost Wind. Maybe it was that, but it wasn't out of fear I said what I said. I no longer was afraid of Mitchell. "You want to ride him?" I asked. Mitchell took a step backward. It was obvious he hadn't expected me to say that. "You know I can't ride him," he said. "Your white daddy'd kill me." "You want to ride him?" I asked again. Mitchell looked at the stallion, then at me. "So, what if I do?" "You figure you can ride Ghost Wind, then get on. Just bring him back to the stable when you're finished so I can rub him down."

Read the excerpt from The Land."As I recall," said my daddy, "it was Mitchell who near to crippled Ghost Wind.""That was a long time ago. Mitchell's learned a lot about horses since then."My daddy thought on that. "I suppose," he agreed. "How old is that boy now?""He just turned sixteen first part of the year.""Sixteen and he can't ride, can he?""That's because you don't let him."

How is Paul and Mitchell’s conflict with the injured stallion resolved in The Land, Part 2?

Read the excerpt from The Land, Part 1.At first I just tried to stay out of Mitchell's way, but that didn't solve the problem. So I went to my sister, Cassie, about Mitchell. Now, my sister was a beautiful girl and I knew even Mitchell had eyes for her. But Cassie was not only beautiful, she was tough, smart, and just a bit cocky. She was six years older than I was and pretty much like a mother hen when it came to me; I knew she'd take my part. "Cassie, you know 'bout Mitchell?" I asked her.

Which excerpt from The Land contains descriptive narration?

Which excerpt from The Land, Part 2 is indirect characterization of Willie Thomas?

Read this excerpt from The Land.Eventually there came the time on a late summer afternoon just before my twelfth birthday when folks came to visit and it was my mama, not my daddy, who ordered me to the kitchen. Robert was now expected to stay at my daddy’s table, and no amount of protest on his part changed that. My mama set a lone plate for me on the sideboard in the kitchen. That was truly the first time I felt unwanted in my daddy’s family. My daddy hadn’t even bothered to tell me himself not to sit at his table. He had left that to my mama, and I resented not only him for it, but her too.

Read this excerpt from The Land.When I was a little boy, being sent off to the kitchen to eat or outside to play didn’t bother me, because Robert was always sent off with me. But then as we grew older, Robert was allowed to stay when the visitors came for their socializing, though at first he wouldn’t stay without me. Even his grandmother couldn’t make him stay. Robert’s grandma on his mama’s side always hated the fact that my daddy allowed Cassie and me to sit at his table and enjoy the life she felt was owed only to her daughter’s children. When the daughter died, her mother was there in my daddy’s house. Of course, I was only a baby at the time, but later I grew to know her hatred. She had stayed on in my daddy’s house and took over running it. I remember she was always hard on my mama, and on Cassie and me. When my daddy was away during mealtime, she would send Cassie and me from the table. When that happened, Robert always went with me, and she couldn’t make him come back.

Read the excerpt from The Land, Part 2."Whoa there, Wind," I said softly as I tried to get near the stallion. "It's me, boy. It's Paul." I extended my hand slowly. "Let me take a look at you now. It’s all right. It's all right." The stallion pulled back at first. I kept talking, and he finally allowed me to touch him. He whinnied just a bit, and I patted him gingerly, trying to make him know me; then, when he was still, I took a closer look at his leg.

Which sentence accurately uses the homophone “elude”?