<p>and what was the first passage i dont even remember taht one</p>
<p>I can't recall either of those... :S bad short term memory</p>
<p>despair was the correct answer; I think the first passage was the one about the girl and her parents</p>
<p>What passages were there?</p>
<p>Lets list them... so far this is what I remember</p>
<p>The Girl and Her Parents</p>
<p>The Bowl and Carnations</p>
<p>The Struggling Writer</p>
<p>The Traveling Senator</p>
<p>The Peacock One (Girl and Mother)</p>
<p>I went with the metaphors something something abstract...it seemed that's what the purpose was...</p>
<p>okay so far we have:</p>
<ol>
<li>Girl and parents</li>
<li>Bowl of flowers</li>
<li>Senator</li>
<li>Woman/ flannery o'connor house</li>
<li>Women/ Man/ Adultery</li>
<li>Love poem/Muse</li>
</ol>
<p>I
Clear water in a brilliant bowl,
Pink and white carnations. The light
In the room more like a snowy air,
Reflecting snow. A newly-fallen snow
At the end of winter when afternoons return.
Pink and white carnations - one desires
So much more than that. The day itself
Is simplified: a bowl of white,
Cold, a cold porcelain, low and round,
With nothing more than the carnations there.
II
Say even that this complete simplicity
Stripped one of all one's torments, concealed
The evilly compounded, vital I
And made it fresh in a world of white,
A world of clear water, brilliant-edged,
Still one would want more, one would need more,
More than a world of white and snowy scents.
III
There would still remain the never-resting mind,
So that one would want to escape, come back
To what had been so long composed.
The imperfect is our paradise.
Note that, in this bitterness, delight,
Since the imperfect is so hot in us,
Lies in flawed words and stubborn sounds. </p>
<p>In case anybody wanted to check..I had the metaphor for the abstract answer..whats the consensus on what the "evilly compounded, vital I" question?</p>
<p>As for the whole "or scant blah blah despite" I had literally no idea what that meant hahahah I put something like "accusing them of not looking as good anymore" or something because I took "former" as meaning her former appearance, and I just thought that the husband would try to excuse his actions by "scanting our former in despite" or whatever...absolutely no clue! I skipped 8....probably failed....I think I would like to curl up and die...but u guys are amazing I just thought I'd say...and from what it sounds like, don't worry I'm sure you guys rocked!
And I have to say some of the ones I wasn't sure about at all I got right, so that was a little relief...thank you all so much for posting! =)</p>
<p>Trekker 14: whats the consensus on what the "evilly compounded, vital I" question?"
I can't remember the answer choices, what were they?
I do remember being confused...</p>
<p>Questions:
1. Girl and parents
a. gravity working against her
- losing control
b. depicted her father
- infirmatory(correct)
- authoratative
-hypocritcal
2. Bowl of flowers
a. the reference to the word "world "
-metaphor abstract
-representation of vase
b. evilly... I
3. Senator
a. how did the passage represent chaos
- using dashes
- changing viewpoints
- present tense
- something about scene moving quickly
4. Woman/ flannery o'connor house
a. who is the author
-black writer
-tourist
b. her attitude at the end
- wry
- enthusiastic
c.mother's role
- to prompt the girl
5. Women/ Man/ Adultery
a. what does the fall represent
-adultry
b. why do the husbands do it
-desire
c. woman have galls
- sexual desire
d.
6. Newly married couple
a. wife's new attitude
-despair (correct)
-self pity<br>
b. husbands new attitude
-despair
- self pity (correct)<br>
7. Love poem/Muse
a. point of passage</p>
<pre><code> b. husbands new attitude
-despair
- self pity (correct)
</code></pre>
<p>something about imperfection being necessary was the answer to evilly... I</p>
<p>how do we bold?
\how do we bold?/</p>
<p><b>Phew</b> that's what I put in regards to the "imperfection being necessary"</p>
<p><b>trying to bold</b>
trying to bold</p>
<p>** probably like this **</p>
<p>yup, with [b ] and [/b ]</p>
<p>I'm pretty sure in the Flannery O'Connor one, her attitude was indulgent, at least from what I remember from her comments about the peacocks...</p>
<p>And that's how you bold those little <b> deals...on myspace anyway lol....wow I am noticing how addicted I am to this online stuff--scary to say the least</b></p><b>
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<p>i put wry for that one... a dry sense of humor and a little bit of irony that the peacocks written about... etc.</p>
<p>I think it was in the passage about the married couple, but it said what did the "it" refer back to...what was the answer?</p>
<p>I put wry too I'm pretty sure...indulgent just didn't make sense...what was she indulging in?</p>