Structure And Narrative: Rosa Parks' Memoir, My Story

29 August 2022
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I wasn't frightened at the jail. I was more resigned than anything else. This excerpt is probably more accurate than other accounts of the same event because the reader learns about Rosa Parks from
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her own perspective.
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Which is found in My Story but not in "On the Bus with Rosa Parks"?
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details of Rosa Parks's prison cell
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Rosa How she sat there, the time right inside a place so wrong it was ready. That trim name with its dream of a bench to rest on. Her sensible coat. How does the narration in this excerpt affect the storytelling?
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It shows the poet's perspective of Rosa Parks.
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Here it was, half a century after the first segregation law, and there were 50,000 African Americans in Montgomery. The first-person narration in this excerpt best helps readers understand
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the anger black people felt.
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In My Story, when Rosa Parks writes about her famous bus ride and arrest on December 1, 1955, she mostly uses a chronological text structure because she wants
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readers to understand what occurred to her that day.
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It was unfair to segregate us. But neither the bus company nor the mayor nor the city commissioners would listen. Which piece of information could probably only come from Rosa Parks's first-person narration of the story?
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Rosa Parks asked a few people if they were willing to boycott the buses.
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Back in the spring of 1955 a teenage girl named Claudette Colvin and an elderly woman refused to give up their seats The author uses a chronological text structure in this excerpt because it.
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gives readers a clear picture of the sequence of events.
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Which statement correctly compares and contrasts My Story and "On the Bus with Rosa Parks"?
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Both the memoir and poem describe the bus ride of Rosa Parks, but the memoir includes more facts.
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Rosa How she sat there, the time right inside a place so wrong it was ready. In this excerpt, the poet's narration reveals
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the poet's feeling of pride in Rosa Parks.
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How is the tone in My Story different from the tone in "On the Bus with Rosa Parks"?
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The memoir has an angry tone; the poem has an admiring tone.
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In My Story, why did Rosa Parks refuse to give up her bus seat to a white man on December 1, 1955?
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She was sick of segregation.
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Which is found in "On the Bus with Rosa Parks" but not in My Story?
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praise for Rosa Parks's act
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Aa text that describes events in the order they happened is structured according to
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chronology
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Another time he went to see about extending the route of the Day Street bus. Which correctly describes a cause-and-effect relationship in this excerpt?
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Cause: People had to walk across a bridge to catch the bus. Effect: Mr. Nixon protested to the bus company.
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I did not go down with the others to present that petition to the bus company and the city officials, What belongs in the blank "Effect" box? She did not go with her friends to present the petition.
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She did not go with her friends to present the petition.