"Condensed Milk" is a short story by Russian author Varlam Shalamov, who spent fifteen years of his life in a Gulag, a Russian forced-labor camp. The story is based on his experience at the camp.
The main character and narrator is a political prisoner, an "enemy of the people". Even a thief is above him at the camp. He is starving, ill, and mentally drained. He has no strength in himself to do anything other than survive for the rest of the day:
"Inside there was only an empty scorched sensation, and we were indifferent to everything, making plans no further than the next day."
However, we notice a change in the narrator's apathy once he is approached by Shestakov. Although Shestakov is also a prisoner, he has an office job, an easier life than the others. Shestakov invites the narrator to escape from the Gulag with him, but the narrator sees right through this amicable façade. Certainly, Shestakov is working with the government. He is simply deceiving other prisoners to get them killed or sentenced to more years.
That is enough for the narrator to find a strange type of strength inside himself. There is not much he can do, though. He cannot kill Shestakov, he cannot warn the others. Those actions would lead to his own death. His revenge comes in the form of a request. He asks for condensed milk - the sweetest, most delicious food he could think of. Shestakov brings him two cans, believing he will agree to escape after drinking them. To his surprise, the narrator reveals he does not wish to go. As he had predicted, the others are trapped once they try to run away, but nothing happens to Shestakov. Notice how the narrator found in himself a bit of energy, an ember of pride, of strength:
"t was, of course, a weak, worthless act of vengeance just like all my feelings. "
It was an act of vengeance nonetheless.
The conflict is between protagonist , who is a prisoner of hard labor in a Soviet gulag, are at odds with Shestakov, another prisoner who has been assigned a more comfortable position. The conflict is that Shestakov proposes an escape route, which the protagonist deduces is designed to fail.
What is a protagonist?
A person with extraverted, intuitive and judging personality type is a protagonist. They frequently hold deeply held beliefs and values.
They support their point of view with the imagination needed to accomplish their objectives. A protagonist is the principal character in a work of fiction.
Shestakov offers to take the narrator with him to leave the Gulag, but the narrator is able to see right through his intentions. The narrator was starving and ill asks him to bring condensed milk.
Shestakov sends him two cans, hoping that once he drinks them, he will consent to flee. The narrator shocks him by saying he doesn't want to go. it was an act of vengeance by the narrator.
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The similes are:
I wondered lonely as a cloud
and
A host of golden daffodils
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Answer:
I would think A
Explanation:
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Put these in a complex/compound sentence
The woman owned her own business.
The woman was French.
The business was a clothing store.
The clothing store sold a lot of socks.
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Harry was bored.
Harry had to attend school from home using Google Meets.
School was put online because of butterfly
butterfly case numbers were very high.
Answer:
I think this is awkwardly written, but it *IS* a complex/compound sentence:
As a French woman, she owned her own clothing store, and the clothing store sold a lot of socks.
It can be written more eloquently as a complex sentence:
As the proprietor of a clothing store, the French woman sold a lot of socks.
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Because of the high number of butterfly cases, Harry had to attend school from home using Google Meets, so he was very bored.
Explanation:
Read these sentences from paragraph 4.
She pouted unhappily the whole day and evening and didn't want to say one word to me. When she woke up the next morning, she still had not forgotten. In these sentences, the author depicts the daughter as - A deceptive B envious Cresentful D reflective
Answer:
C-resentful
Explanation:
Because resentment is a complex, multilayered emotion that has been described as a mixture of disappointment, disgust, anger, and fear and the daughter was showing some of those emotions.
what facts about Miss Havisham are revealed by lines of dialogue and the incident described in the passage
Answer:
where is the pic
Explanation:
What is the resolution of the “story of an hour?”
The resolution of the story is that she dies after she looks at her husband alive.
What is the resolution?The resolution in the poem is the replacement of the long syllable with to short syllable and is based on the decisions. The resolution that is expressed in the story of the hour is that of Mrs. Mallard who dies when she looks that her husband is still alive. The death frees her from the marriage to Mallard and gives her the freedom marriage deprived her of while she was alive.
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shakespeare sonnet 18, what is the metaphor of spring/summer and why is it used? also, what is the purpose of this poem?
Answer:
Summer traditionally represents the time in life when we are fully blooming.
Explanation:
Summer traditionally represents the time in life when we are fully blooming. Spring is the virtuous youth. The metaphor he is playing with is the traditional notion that we all live the seasons of man, and that we have the most promise in the spring and are at our hottest (ripest) in the summer.
The main purpose of Shakespeare's Sonnet 18 is embodied in the end couplet: So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this and this gives life to thee. The sonneteer's purpose is to make his love's beauty and, by implication, his love for her, eternal.
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Why did American officials want to bring an end to the Korean War as quickly as possible? In your answer, describe the roles of Russia and China. What was the result of the Korean War?
Answer: America wanted not just to contain communism - they also wanted to prevent the domino effect. Truman was worried that if Korea fell, the next country to fall would be Japan, which was very important for American trade.
Explanation:
Answer:
because alot of things are made in korea and the U.S needs them to make things. russia and china were not very involved in the war. After three years of a bloody and frustrating war, the United States, the People's Republic of China, North Korea, and South Korea agree to an armistice, bringing the fighting of the Korean War to an end. The armistice ended America's first experiment with the Cold War concept of “limited war.”
Combatants: North Korea, South Korea
Start date: June 25, 1950
The impact of the Korean War on the civilian population was especially dramatic. Korean civilian casualties - dead, wounded and missing - totalled between three and four million during the three years of war (1950-1953). The war was disastrous for all of Korea, destroying most of its industry.
From reading "The Raven and the First Men: The Beginnings of the Haida," the reader can tell that the Haida people value family due to the actions of the baby toward the daughter. the Sky Chief toward Raven. Raven toward the Sky Chief. the daughter toward the baby. "The Sky Father will watch us from above, while the Earth Mother nourishes us from below." "It is impossible!" cried Tû. "We should kill them. There is no other way to be free."
Answer:
the daughter toward the baby.
Explanation:
According to the tale "The Raven and the First Men: The Beginnings of the Haida," we learn of the Chief's daughter's attitude in adopting the child who was the Raven, without knowing her origin and without knowing what the child really was. The Chief's daughter loves the child unconditionally and acts as a true mother in the care and defense of the child.
With that, we can see, not only that the Haidas valued the family, but also that they had a vision of caring for children and valued the feminine strength and the ability to be a mother.
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What is the sun likeliest to symbolize?
A. Death B. Light C. Hope D. Knowledge
Answer:B
Explanation:
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In his Revolutionary-era pamphlet Common Sense, Thomas Paine uses the
words "exceedingly ridiculous," "unnaturally," and "absurd" to describe the
British monarchy. These are examples of which type of rhetorical appeal?
A. Morals
B. Parallelism
C. Ethos
D. Pathos
Answer:
C. Ethos
Explanation:
Ethos is the fundamental character of an individual or institution that distinguishes them from others. Describing the British monarch as exceedingly ridiculous, unnatural, and absurd are all negative connotations. They are not presented in a positive way and this means that Thomas Paine found them wanting in character.
The institution is hereby classified as a wildly unreasonable character. Paine was clearly against their dealings which was why he condemned them.
Exercise 2:create a fairy tale
Direction: Arrange the sequence of events in tghe following jumbled paraggraphs to create a good story.
Answer:
The sequence will be:
6➡️5➡️4➡️3➡️2➡️1
(6)Long time ago in a remote place of Suriago, there lived a young teenager who didn't like school. He wanted to just climb up hills and mountains to gather firewood or pick some ripe guavas which he loved very much.
(5) One day, he met a sinister-looking old woman. He was a bit afraid, however he was also enticed to go with her in her house, because she said that she had plenty of guava trees with ripened fruits in her backyard. (4) The boy immediately climbed up each tree, picked and ate the ripe guavas until he didn't notice the glooming of the day.
(3) When he noticed that it was already dusk, he hurriedly climbed down from the tree, and jumped out of his skin as he saw the old woman like a sneering tiger who seemed ready to devour him. Terrified, he moved swiftly like a wind. (2) Luckily, he ran across a farmer who was also striding towards home. The farmer brought him home for he was trembling with fear. (1) From then on, he no longer idle around or climb up to the hills and mountains alone. He went back to school, studied seriously and he became a successful teacher.
Explanation:
I have been able to arrange the story according to the correct sequence to create the fairy tale.
As properly arranged, we see that No. 6 begins with the story's Exposition, No. 5 is the Rising Action, No. 4 and No. 3 are the Climax of the story, No. 2 is the Falling Action and No. 1 makes up the Resolution of the story.
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Answer: A
Explanation:
Answer:
(D)- "Empathy is a sideshow. if you want to make the word a better place, help people debate, undertsnd, reform, revere and enact their codes." ( paragraph 13)
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what does tlqc stand for?
Answer:
Transition, Lead-in, Quote, Citation. Element
Explanation:
How does the setting of the story make it more effective
Answer: it makes it seem lonely and wild
Explanation:
Read these lines from the poem.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of being and ideal grace."
Based on these lines, what can you conclude about the speaker's love for the addressee?
a.The speaker loves the addressee as much as the speaker's soul allows.
b.The speaker loves the addressee even though the addressee is not graceful.
c.The depth of the speaker's love for the addressee is not as great as its breadth and height.
d.The height of the speaker's love for the addressee is not as great as its depth and breadth.
Answer: A would be the answer
Explanation:
If you read the poem again it doesn’t say anything about hate.
Which detail from The Diary of a Young Girl best supports the mood of terror and anxiety? “I don't think I'll ever feel at home in this house, but that doesn't mean I hate it.” “Whatever we do, we're very afraid the neighbors might hear or see us.” “Until Wednesday, I didn't have a chance to think about the enormous change in my life.” “And we have to be quiet so the people downstairs can't hear us.”
Answer:
B. Hope this helps
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Answer:
B) “Whatever we do, we're very afraid the neighbors might hear or see us.” Is the correct answer
Explanation:
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write a paragraph on punctuality
Answer:
A person who always does his/her works on time is called as punctual. Punctuality is the characteristic of a person which makes him capable to handle all the appointments on time. It enables a person to do right thing at right time without any excuse of delay in work.
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Answer:
Punctuality or punctuality of a successful person is one of the most important features. A person with this quality performs his tasks at the right time or ahead of time. Whenever I think, I really wonder what will happen when all and every citizen of the country (student, officer, teacher, leader, politician, doctor, engineer, businessman, etc.) becomes punctual.
In my view, it will bring all the arrangements and actions on the right path and lead the country towards success and glory. Punctuality or punctuality is an essential quality.
It helps people to create a bright future. If we look at the history of a great man, then we get to know the real facts of his success. It enables a person to perform all the tasks of the day according to the schedule and in an easy manner on time. Punctual people never waste a single minute or second of their time.
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how to start a hook for Oedipus essay? I have an essay for English on why Oedipus Rex is an example of tragic hero. I just can't figure out a good hook. thanks for your help!
Answer:
You can use this as your hook, if you'd like to:
There are many definitions of what a "hero" is to society, but is every hero the same? Is every hero actually heroic? The answer is actually a no, as Oedipus Rex is a tragic hero. Even though many people believe heroes are to fight off evil and do good, Oedipus is the opposite of that, and for multiple reasons.
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The less time we spend cooking....
A. the more we eat
B. the less we know about how our food is perpaired
Answer:
B
Explanation:
Which detail shows that the lion feels worried about being punished
Answer:
the lion feel sadnnes because hes getting introuble
Answer:if she sees me this way I’m afraid she’ll stop my allowance
Explanation:
How is Grendel characterized in this passage?
Grendel is jealous of the humans’ wealth.
Grendel is critical of himself but unable to contain his curiosity.
Grendel is violent and aggressive toward the humans.
Answer:
Grendel is critical of himself but unable to contain his curiosity.
Explanation:
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Answer:
B. Grendel is critical of himself but unable to contain his curiosity.
Explanation:
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Question 1:
Which group of words would be used in the study of science?
A) laboratory, formula, theory
B) equation, operation, addition
C) laws, officials, elections
D) language, music, art
Question 2:
What is the purpose of skimming?
A) to read for understanding
B) to be able to summarize material
C) to get an overview of something
D) to prepare for a test
Question 3:
Which type of writing is used in most science lessons?
A) scientific
B) exploratory
C) expository
D) narrative
Question 4:
What are context clues?
A) side notes that accompany the main text
B) words that have to do with the senses
C) words placed in the header as lesson guides
D) words that surround a term and help define the term.
Question 5:
USE CONTEXT CLUES TO DETERMINE THE BEST DEFINITION FOR TRANSFORMED.
Energy is constantly being transformed (or converted). That means it is changing from one form to another.
A) reshaped
B) created
C) changed
D) moved
Question 6:
Which of these is not a place you would find the definition of an unfamiliar term?
A) in the text surrounding the term
B) in a dictionary
C) in the headers
D) in the glossary
Question 7:
What is the best definition of skimming?
A) reading to get an overview
B) quickly looking at pictures in a lesson
C) reading while in a hurry
D) reading to learn
Question 8:
WHICH HEADER BEST FITS THIS READING PASSAGE?
Sound is something that is often taken for granted. Of course, people are aware of the sound of the voices and music. Sometimes the sound of loud airplanes overhead or lawn equipment being used outside might be disturbing. However, what we don't often recognize is that people rarely experience silence.
Even in a quiet house, there can be the hum of a refrigerator or the ticking of a clock. Outside in nature, birds might be singing, or the wind could be rustling.
A) Noise
B) Silence
C) Sound
D) Humming
Question 9:
WHICH HEADER BEST FITS THIS INFORMATION?
The three bones of the middle ear act as amplifiers. A small vibration of the eardrum causes the hammer to vibrate. It's shape and position produce a greater vibration in the anvil. The stirrup transfers the increased vibrations to an inner ear structure called the oval window.
A) Sound
B) Amplifiers
C) Vibrations
D) The Middle Ear
Question 10:
Based on your knowledge of Greek and Latin root words, which is the best definition of hydrolysis.
hydro - related to water
A) a cooling process
B) underwater
C) the water cycle
D) a process that involves water
Answer:
I think it b but i may be wrong
Explanation:
Which compound sentence does this sentence diagram express?
Madison reads and studies in the evening and in the morning.
Madison reads in the evening, and she studies in the morning.
Madison reads in the evening and in the morning she studies.
Madison reads and she studies in the morning and evening.
Answer:
B) Madison reads in the evening, and she studies in the morning.
Thus I know how to preach against the vice
Which masters me—and that is avarice.
Though I myself am guilty of the sin,
I know how to make other people turn
From avarice, and bitterly repent.
Which word best characterizes the Pardoner in this passage?
timid
approachable
honest
hypocritical
I would say honest for the answer
Answer:
Correct answer is "D" Hypocritical
Explanation:
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Guys, can you please help me. I'm tasked to write a story and English is not my first language so can you check if my grammar is correct? You also add something if you want. :)
Please don't judge me I'm not a writer.
Walking down this street was so empty. It's kinda nice though. I feel like I'm walking in an magical forest. It's calm, beautiful and I enjoy it. As I walked further, I saw a house peeking through the tall trees. I was getting closer and closer and saw how enormous it really is. Standing by the mansion's gate made me feel tiny like Alice in Wonderland. The exterior are painted white and their windows are as tall as the trees. Their beautiful and large garden was spread throughout from left to right. In the middle, you can see a huge water fountain just a few meters in front their door where the birds chirp as they drink and bathe. I walked a few steps after I passed the mansion and saw another gate that was connected to the mansion. There were cars parked in there. Their shiny exterior reflected the sunlight as it hits them. The dark red car which almost looks like the color of a cherry caught my eye. It was exquisite and it was the most unique thing I've ever seen. I was left in shock how rich these people are. They're like living the life of royals. How good their life must be.
Answer:
Explanation:
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What's different between a phrase and a clause? Best explaination gets Brainliest.
Answer:
A clause is a group of words with a subject-verb unit; the 2nd group of words contains the subject-verb unit the bus goes, so it is a clause. A phrase is a group of words without a subject-verb unit.