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TSI Reading: Understanding the Characterization of "Old Master" 129 Views
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Description:
Because of the character description the narrator provides of "old master," a reader might conclude that
(A)the narrator will eventually be freed
(B)the narrator will lead a rebellion
(C)old master often punishes the narrator
(D)it is safer to run away from old master
Transcript
- 00:02
Okay see reading analyzers were unquestioned Two of three on
- 00:05
the autobiography of a slave here and let's Just get
- 00:09
right to the question Because of the character description the
- 00:12
narrator provides of old master a reader might conclude that
- 00:16
what So he's describing master in a certain way and
Full Transcript
- 00:24
it seems kind of insane but well what do you
- 00:27
think Well we're not sure that there's anyone upstairs in
- 00:30
the old masters barn there right he's muttering and you
- 00:34
know on top of owning slaves he talks to himself
- 00:36
hates kids You kids get off my lawn and i
- 00:39
was recording from that era and assumes that all black
- 00:42
people are ignorant when old master's having a nice angry
- 00:45
talk with himself the narrator is wise enough to get
- 00:48
out of his way and avoid a punishment deserved or
- 00:51
undeserved One of the punishment is well he developed this
- 00:54
habit at a young age and stuck to it which
- 00:56
tells us that the master was prone to dealing out
- 00:59
the punishments So yeah see old master often punishes the
- 01:03
narrator So that's it that's the right answer there and
- 01:06
the loser bull just to get rid of these Well
- 01:08
there's No indication in the passage that old crazy will
- 01:10
suddenly have a change of heart and free his slaves
- 01:13
Where does that come from And nothing about the passages
- 01:15
suggest the narrator is planning a rebellion maybe in his
- 01:18
own Mind he'd like that He fantasizes about it Can't
- 01:21
blame him for slaves running away was notoriously dangerous and
- 01:24
the narrator doesn't explore that option in the passage So
- 01:28
yeah that's it it's c
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