The theme developed in both stories which represents a life lesson, and coincides in Marigolds” and “First Love”, deals with the meaning of emapthy and love while we are growing up. In a general sense, empathy is defined as the human ability to understand and share the feelings of another while love is an intense feeling of deeper affection. These two feelings are brought to light by the authors of both stories in different ways and, through their main female characters whose ages are before their adulthood.
When comparing the stories, the plots used by the authors coincide in two important items. The first one is the age of the main female characters who are in the childhood and, the second is that they believe that empathy means to love someone. While the main character of Marigolds thinks that destroying Miss Dottie’s marigolds symbolizes the antipathy, felt by the rest of her friends, to this lady; the main character of First love believes that the first empathy kiss received from an elder man means He is in love with her. The conflict of both stories is solved at the end, when the females regret the things they did during their childhood.
In Marigolds, she regrets her behavior, stating:
“In that humiliating moment I looked beyond myself and into the depths of another person. This was the beginning of compassion”
In First love: she recgnized how mistaken and innocent she had been to think that the boy was deeply in love with her, she stops to be a child.
At Jundi Shapur the best scholars west of China all gathered to think and study together. By the 600s, the doctors at the school were writing about a medicine from India named sharkara or, as the Persians called it, shaker—sugar. Indeed, scholars at Jundi Shapur invented new and better ways to refine cane into sugar.
1)“The two geologists had been out on their first mission together to collect rock and soil samples.”This statement implies it is their first time on a mission together, Hence their first interaction.
2) “Bianca and Jordan were new members who had been recruited from different training programs.” This statement implies that they’ve never met before because they’ve been recruited from different training programs.
3) “They chatted about their backgrounds, each learning about where the other had grown up and gone to school.” This implies they had now tried to get to know each other since they haven’t talked before.
The answer to this question is "<em>There are various ways to determine the meaning of a word, including dictionaries, thesaurus, and context clues.</em>" The reason why is because when we are reading a story the definition of the word is not always included, however the author might leave a portion of text which might indicate what the meaning might be. Then there is the case where there is no context clues that the author left us and so instead we look up the word in the dictionary. The last one is where at the end of the book the thesaurus is found there they have definitions of the words that are found in the book. Hope this helps!