Consider this quote from the video: i don't think ravi felt isolated. i think he was bored, and he didn't think the game was very interesting. like he wanted to hide so that he didn't have to play, and he could just chill and wait it out. do you agree or disagree with this point of view? find evidence from the story to support or refute the student's claim. in your response, clarify why you agree or disagree with the student's thoughts.

Answer and explanation:

Ravi is a character in the short story "Games at Twilight" by author Anita Desai. In the narrative, Ravi and his siblings are playing hide-and-seek in the yard and garden around their house. Being one of the smaller kids, Ravi realizes his chances of hiding from Raghu by running from him are not very good. He chooses to hide in a shed, a small place full of rats and spiders where old furniture and broken things are kept. Ravi slips through a gap between the door and the wall and stays there for hours.

Unlike what is stated in the quote from the video, Ravi did not hide so that he could "just chill and wait [the game] out." When he thinks of the possibility of winning, Ravi is thrilled. He imagines himself being admired, especially because his siblings are mostly older and stronger than he is. The idea of beating them at something excites him so much, he is able to stay still inside that uncomfortable shed until the evening comes:

Ravi sat back on the harsh edge of the tub, deciding to hold out a bit longer. What fun if they  were all found and caught—he alone left unconquered! He had never known that sensation.  Nothing more wonderful had ever happened to him than being taken out by an uncle and  bought a whole slab of chocolate all to himself, or being flung into the soda man’s pony cart  and driven up to the gate by the friendly driver with the red beard and pointed ears. To defeat  Raghu—that hirsute, hoarse-voiced football champion—and to be the winner in a circle of  older, bigger, luckier children—that would be thrilling beyond imagination. He hugged his  knees together and smiled to himself almost shyly at the thought of so much victory, such  laurels.

There he sat smiling, knocking his heels against the bathtub, now and then getting up and  going to the door to put his ear to the broad crack and listening for sounds of the game, the  pursuer and the pursued, and then returning to his seat with the dogged determination of the  true winner, a breaker of records, a champion.

Unfortunately, Ravi ends up being completely forgotten by the other children. At the end of the story, a feeling of insignificance washes away the picture of victory he had made up in his mind.

what: when quoting a source, use the author’s words verbatim, or word-for-word. this means you shouldn’t change any grammar, punctuation, spelling, etc. put quotations around the words to tell your reader where the quote begins and where it ends.

you also need to acknowledge the author. for example, if using mla format for your research paper, you should have in-text citations with the author’s name and page number listed at the end of each quote.

when: use quotations to provide concrete examples to support your claims. using direct quotations is a great way to build your credibility on the subject. it’s also a good idea to quote your source when the author states things in a powerful way. if you think he or she said it best, then use the exact words to share the ideas.

example: in the short story “a jury of her peers”, mrs. hale compares mrs. wright to her caged bird, saying “she—come to think of it, she was kind of like a bird herself. real sweet and pretty, but kind of timid and—fluttery. how—she—did—change” (glaspell).

paraphrasing

what: paraphrasing differs from quoting because you restate the passage in your own words. since you don’t use the author’s words, you don’t need to use quotation marks. however, you still need to acknowledge the author for his or her ideas.

when paraphrasing a text, you should communicate the full meaning of the text; don’t change the meaning. it can be a condensed version of the text, or it could end up being longer than the source it’s paraphrasing.

when: you use paraphrasing when you take notes, or explain a chart or diagram to someone. paraphrasing highlight the important parts of a larger text. it also allows you to simplify the ideas for your readers.

example:

original: “it was no ordinary thing that called her away–it was probably further from ordinary than anything that had ever happened in dickson county. but what her eye took in was that her kitchen was in no shape for leaving: her bread all ready for mixing, half the flour sifted and half unsifted” (glaspell).

paraphrase: as mrs. hales walks around mrs. wright’s home, she notices that the kitchen is in disarray as if she was in the middle of baking bread (glaspell).

the answer is b b- it makes him angry that malcolm didn't trust him.