Question

Writers organize their writings to make an impact on their readers. In Muir's writing about the Calypso Borealis, he places opposing views of his journey close together. Read the following paragraphs. In two to four sentences, explain the opposite views of the two paragraphs and discuss the impact of placing these opposite views close together.

The rarest and most beautiful of the flowering plants I discovered on this first grand excursion was Calypso borealis (the Hider of the North). I had been fording streams more and more difficult to cross and wading bogs and swamps that seemed more and more extensive and more difficult to force one's way through. Entering one of these great tamarac and arbor-vitae swamps one morning, holding a general though very crooked course by compass, struggling through tangled drooping branches and over and under broad heaps of fallen trees, I began to fear that I would not be able to reach dry ground before dark, and therefore would have to pass the night in the swamp and began, faint and hungry, to plan a nest of branches on one of the largest trees or windfalls like a monkey's nest, or eagle's, or Indian's in the flooded forests of the Orinoco described by Humboldt.

But when the sun was getting low and everything seemed most bewildering and discouraging, I found beautiful Calypso on the mossy bank of a stream, growing not in the ground but on a bed of yellow mosses in which its small white bulb had found a soft nest and from which its one leaf and one flower sprung. The flower was white and made the impression of the utmost simple purity like a snowflower. No other bloom was near it, for the bog a short distance below the surface was still frozen, and the water was ice cold. It seemed the most spiritual of all the flower people I had ever met. I sat down beside it and fairly cried for joy.

Answer 1

is this module six

Answer 2

yes

Answer 3

english 1

Answer 4

yes it is 6.02

Answer 5

who is your teacher becase i am in the exact same part

Answer 6

Mrs. collier

Answer 7

oh thats not mine but here

At first Muir makes the setting of his story seem like a place you wouldn't want to go. He does this by composing his words in an order that makes the place the story is at sound horrible. An example of this is when he writes "I had been fording streams more and more difficult to cross and wading bogs and swamps that seemed more and more extensive and more difficult to force one's way through." He then suddenly changes the mood by using adjectives such as simple, beautiful and soft. For instance, when it reads "It seemed the most spiritual of all the flower people I had ever met. I sat down beside it and fairly cried for joy." As you can tell the mood is now peaceful. Because he put the two contrasting moods so close together it emphasized the difficulty of the journey but at the same time it highlighted the beauty of the flower and how rewarding the journey was.

Answer 8

is that the answer for this question?

Answer 9

yes it is i got 100% on the two questions that i did

Answer 10

ok thank you

Answer 11

best response please

Answer 12

:)