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3.Which excerpt from the story “The Day I Got Lost” is an example of indirect characterization?

I carry an overstuffed briefcase, and I’m forever making mistakes.

I’m always late and I never recognize anybody.

In addition to my constant blundering, and losing things, I’m forgetful.

I enter a coffee shop, hang up my coat, and leave without it.

4.How does Julian, the protagonist, change in the story “Everything that Rises Must Converge"?

Julian discovers that he is responsible for his mother’s health woes.

Julian recognizes that his mother is not actually a racist.

Julian identifies the source if his anger, and he is able to gain happiness.

Julian understands that despite his judgement of his mother, he loves her.


5.Julian is the protagonist in “Everything that Rises Must Converge.”

Which piece of evidence from the text best reveals that Julian’s mother is the antagonist?

Everything that gave her pleasure was small and depressed him.

Each house had a narrow collar of dirt around it in which sat, usually, a grubby child.

The reducing class was designed for working girls over fifty, who weighed from 165 to 200 pounds.

She was one of the few members of the Y reducing class who arrived in hat and gloves and who had a son who had been to college.