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- 00:03
Here’s your Shmoop du jour, brought to you by making your bed.
- 00:06
Yes, even that weird top sheet. Okay. [Trying to make bed]
- 00:10
Check out the following passage...
- 00:45
Between the beginning and the end of the selection, the tone changes from...what to what? [Asks question]
- 00:50
And here are the potential answers...
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- 00:58
Tone is the general attitude of a piece.
- 01:02
Is it light and chipper? [Happy roach]
- 01:04
Is it dark and depressing? [Sad roach]
- 01:06
Or does it somehow shift over time?
- 01:10
Option (A) claims that the passage starts out joyous, or overly happy.
- 01:14
But we can’t imagine waking up as a cockroach would make anybody all that excited. [Sees self in mirror]
- 01:19
Unsurprisingly, Gregor doesn’t seem thrilled about his situation.
- 01:22
So we’ll cross this one off the list. [Smashes mirror]
- 01:25
(D) might make sense for some people.
- 01:26
We’d be ticked if we randomly transformed into a bug…or an actual tick.
- 01:32
Gregor doesn’t seem mad, though. [Giant bug]
- 01:33
And he definitely never accepts it.
- 01:35
So option (D) has to go.
- 01:36
Choice (C) is moving in the right direction, especially with the whole depressed thing.
- 01:40
Gregor does seem generally depressed about a lot of things.
- 01:42
But he doesn’t end up being hopeful by the end of the passage. [Trying on shoes]
- 01:46
Totally understandable.
- 01:47
It would take a serious optimist to see the bright side in being a bug.
- 01:50
The correct answer is (B).
- 01:52
Oddly enough, Gregor doesn’t initially seem too bothered by the fact that he has woken
- 01:56
up as a cockroach. [TV static]
- 01:59
He doesn't believe it's true and thinks it’s a hallucination brought on by exhaustion.
- 02:04
But as the story moves forward, he becomes more worried that it's true. [Screaming woman]
- 02:08
He becomes almost panicked as his family starts checking on him.
- 02:11
Once again, proving how hard it can be to live up to our family’s expectations.
- 02:16
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