Read the excerpt from enrique’s journey.

today, enrique is terrified of another beating. every time someone new jumps onto his car, he tenses. fear, he realizes, to keep him awake, so he decides to induce it. he climbs to the top of the tank car and takes a running leap. with arms spread, as if he were flying, he jumps to one swaying boxcar, then to another. some have four- to five-foot gaps. others are nine feet apart.

how does the narrative technique of characterization support the author’s purpose in this excerpt? it shows how difficult travel has been for enrique. it illustrates the one thing that enrique is afraid of. it explains why enrique does not want to be part of a gang. it demonstrates that enrique takes drastic measures to survive.

Read this excerpt from "hope, despair and memory" and answer the question. and yet it is surely human to forget, even to want to forget. the ancients saw it as a divine gift. indeed if memory us to survive, forgetting allows us to go on living. how could we go on with our daily lives, if we remained constantly aware of the dangers and ghosts surrounding us? the talmud tells us that without the ability to forget, man would soon cease to learn. without the ability to forget, man would live in a permanent, paralyzing fear of death. only god and god alone can and must remember everything. which of the following is true about the above excerpt? ethos is used in reference to “dangers and ghosts.” logos is used in saying all men forget and want to forget, because the talmud also praised forgetting. ethos is used in referring to the ancients, the talmud, and god. pathos is used without loaded language.

Which words and phrases connect the ideas in this excerpt from a compare and contrast essay? the team considered using products made by company a and company b. however, the budget and concerns about learning about two products meant that they needed to choose only one. they realized that the product from company a was of excellent quality, to company b's product.

Matt is writing a literary analysis essay on shakespeare's use of foreshadowing in act 1 scene 1 of richard 3. which lines in this excerpt from that scene can he use as textual evidence in his essay?