Not long after that effort failed, mr. streeter tried to fight segregation again. the family often went to the movies on sunday after church. "[m]y daddy decided that we weren't going to sit on the back of the bus that day. he got us and he sat us up in the front . . ," arnetta said, "the bus driver pulled over . . and he told my father that either he [her father] was going to move back or he [the driver] was going to call the police . . we were crying . . all we knew was that the bus driver was going to call the police on our daddy." an older black woman on the bus chastised arnetta's father, saying, "you don't do anything like that when you have children with you." once again, mr. streeter gave in to his children, to the driver, to the older woman, and to the city's segregation laws. he moved his family to the back of the bus. how does the author use third-person narration in this excerpt?

a to describe the streeter’s weekend routine
b to explain the injustice of local police efforts
c to reveal the challenges of social activism
d to show arnetta’s pride in her father

the first proposition is to question economic materialism and victorian christianity. the lines are:

“it moves us not.—great god! i'd rather be

a pagan suckled in a creed outworn; ”

wordsworth is stating that nature no longer interests mankind, that the latter is not “moved” by it and explains that ancient western paganism had a more positive attitude concerning nature since it lacked the perv erted judaeo-christian interpretation of having received the world and all its animals and elements from god to use as we , instead of humans actually being not only part of nature but its wardens, meant to appreciate it and protect it.

the next lines are:

“so might i, standing on this pleasant lea,

have glimpses that would make me less forlorn;

have sight of proteus coming from the sea;

or hear old triton blow his wreathed horn.”

wordsworth here make it very clear that by actually looking and contemplating nature, human beings would reconnect with happiness, serenity and purpose. the use of mythological figures is quite evocative as well, proteus is a greek mythological god of the changing sea. he personifies the sea that changes, which symbolizes the way nature changes and inevitably can change to be destructive not only due to natural causes but to human pollution. furthermore, the sea is even more symbolic since all life originated in the sea so it is not only our past but our future since no life form in our planet can survive without water and if all water is destroyed in earth all life will be gone as well.

he then uses triton which is symbolic of the synthesis of both nature and mankind. triton is a mythological greek god that has the upper body of a man and the lower body of a fish (a merman). this human fish duality evokes the fact that humans are not only human but also part of nature, the fish tail representing nature. the main attribute of this god was that he used a conch shell as a horn to calm the roaring seas. in other words, triton uses nature through science for the benefit of human sailors who risk death during tempests. with the use of such metaphor, wordworth is conveying the message that human technology   is supposed to use nature to preserve nature and thereby humanity as well.

summer because you get to tan and wear cooler clothes and go to the beach