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1. The passage is from "Death of a Young Son by Drowning" by Margaret Atwood. It is the passage that appears after the accident that killed the speaker's son. The almost beautiful description of nature shows us that life still goes on even after the most traumatic events such as losing a family member. Therefore, her hands glistened with the details or everyday life or perhaps the tears of her own sadness. Plus, the expression 'hit rock' may mean that losing her son was the most heartbreaking even that she had gone through and therefore hit the bottom of her life, the lowest point. Furthermore, the dreamed sails collapsed because her son was the cairn of her dreams and hopes. Now that her son is gone, her dream has collapsed as well. Nevertheless, the son's death served as an important step for her in forming a bond with the land that she felt to be alien the son is now part of the land.
2. This is a part in Robert Browning's "Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister." The narrator of the poem is a monk who hates Brother Lawrence, and his actions and way of speaking suggest that he is an unreliable narrator. This particular part is about the narrator's desire to send Brother Lawrence to hell, by making him see a page of a morally corrupted book. The novel is written "On grey paper with blunt type," and it is the "sixteenth print" which implies that it is a novel popular in the black market, and it is not published in a proper way. Simply glancing at its pages would cause Brother Lawrence to fall in the grip of Satan, but considering that the narrator seems to know what the novel is about, he is the one that is corrupted. In the previous part of this poem, the narrator speaks of women and their secular tales, and he has a perverse way of honoring God. In the latter part of the poem, he even considers selling his soul to Satan in order to send Brother Lawrence to hell. The speaker's thoughts and speech indicate that he has a wicked character, therefore making him an unreliable narrator.
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2. This passage is from "Soliloquy of a Spanish Cloister," a dramatic monologue written by Robert Browning. The speaker of the poem is a monk who has great hatred for another fellow monk he calls Brother Lawrence. In this specific passage, the speaker conceives a scheme in which he plans to trick Brother Lawrence into looking at a lewd French book and thereby commit a sin. This is ironic in that it exposes the speaker's qualities-those inappropriate to belong to a pious monk-instead. Readers are able to see that the speaker himself is not pious and devout, for he possesses such scandalous books; the act of plotting to condemn another to hell is a sin as well. The passage also demonstrates a key element of a dramatic monologue. Readers can determine the temperament and character of the speaker only through clues given by the same speaker. In the case of the "Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister," readers can infer that the speaker is an unreliable one, blinded by hate for someone who actually seems to be a devout monk.
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