What element of a Greek myth does this passage
contain?
So, gladly she did as she was bidden, but dipping him
headfirst in the dark and bitter flood, she held on to him
by one foot. Thus her fingers, pressed about his heel, kept
the waters from reaching that one spot. By the time she
understood what she had done it was too late, for the
thing could not be done again; so ever after she was
afraid for her son, always afraid.
- Black Ships Before Troy,
Rosemary Sutcliff
O the hero's flaw
O an explanation about the world
O a god changing form
O a moral lesson learned

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assignment

analyzing characters

respond to the following questions in one paragraph for each. use specific examples from the text to support your responses.

1. there is a set of twins on the island named sam and eric. however, when describing them, golding regularly refers to them as samneric. how does this way of describing the twins relate to their behavior and the way that readers understand their characters? what examples of their behavior readers see that samneric is really the appropriate way to refer to them?

2. as the boys set out to search for the beast, ralph allows jack to lead the way, and he sinks to the back of the pack, " to have escaped responsibility for a time." what does this moment lead you to infer about ralph and about his feelings about being the group’s leader? what does this moment foreshadow?

3. while part of the party searching for the beast, simon realizes that the notion of the beast that the other boys have does not make sense. a beast sitting atop a mountain with claws, a beast who did not leave tracks, could have easily caught the twins. simon has a different picture of the beast: "there rose before his inward sight the picture of a human at once heroic and sick." how does this picture relate to the beast that samneric saw? how does it relate to what simon said earlier about the beast being "only us"?

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