Read the passages from "A Smart Cookie" by Sandra
Cisneros and "An Hour with Abuelo" by Judith Ortiz Cofer.
In these passages, the purpose of both authors most
likely is to emphasize the importance of
Today while cooking oatmeal she is Madame Butterfly until
she sighs and points the wooden spoon at me. I could've
been somebody, you know? Esperanza, you go to school.
Study hard.
For four years I boarded with a couple she knew. I paid my
rent in labor, and I ate vegetables I grew myself. I wore my
clothes until they were thin as parchment. But I graduated
at the top of my class!
O family.
O hard work.
education.
O healthy eating
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How does the motif in this passage connect to the central idea? read the excerpt from act 5, scene 1, of julius caesar octavius come come, the cause. if arguing make us sweat the proof of it will turn to redder drops look, i draw a sword against conspirators when think you that the sword goes up again? never, till caesar's three and thirty wounds be well avenged, or till another caesar have added slaughter to the sword of traitors the blood motif suggests that revenge will lead to violence and death the omens motif suggests that octavius will die avenging caesar's death the sword motif suggests that all leaders are eventually assassinated the flattery motif suggests that the conspirators will eventually turn on one another