Question

CAN SOMEONE PLEASE HELP ME WITH THIS

Like the Sun comprehension check

A. Write a one-paragraph introductory paragraph to a summary to "Like the Sun.

B. For each main idea, find supporting details to illustrate or justify it.

1. The headmaster considered music and his musical performance very important. (2 supporting details)

2. Sekhar hated the headmaster's music. (1 supporting detail).

3. Sekhar paid a price for his experiment, but he considered it worth it. (3 supporting details).

C. Create a theme circle (topic>Main idea and supporting details>theme) based on your reading. (Note, you can just write it out on the document instead of creating an actual circle.)

Answer 1

• A. "Like the Sun" shows us a man, willing to tell the truth for one day going through hardships, as his usual behavior is lying to maintain a good relationship with others. By telling the truth, he finds out that the sincerity may affect his everyday life, feeling that the people that receives it often become disappointed but he finds it worthwhile and necessary.

• B1. The headmaster shows how important music is to him through comparing the pursuit of music to the pleasure of having a child: "“God hasn’t given me a child, but at least let him not deny me of the consolation of music,” the headmaster said, pathetically, as they walked. " . We can infer the importance of the performance by the preparation the Headmaster made to receive his guest, showing us that he was already expecting to put on a great show: " At home the headmaster set Sekhar on a red silk carpet, set before him several dishes of delicacies, and fussed over him as if he were a son-in-law of the house. He even said, “Well, you must listen with a free mind. Don’t worry about these test papers.” He added humorously, “I will give you a week’s time.” "

• B2. Sekhar's distaste for the Headmaster's presentation is evident on his thoughts during the show: "(...)Sekhar went on commenting within himself, “He croaks like a dozen frogs. He is bellowing like a buffalo. Now he sounds like loose window shutters in a storm.”"

• B3. After he succeed on telling the truth through all his day, his wife was still very angry with him and he was afraid of losing his job . At the end, Sekhar gets "punished" by the Headmaster's reconsideration of the due date of the tests correction (These three points may be considered "the price"); The narrator description of Sekhar's feelings shows us that for him, telling the truth was worthwhile, after all: "“Yes, sir,” Sekhar said, feeling that sitting up all night with a hundred test papers was a small price to pay for the luxury of practicing truth."
• C. Truth (topic)>""The truth is like the sun.I suppose no human being can ever look it straight in the face without blinking or being dazed."". The truth is ever hard to receive, so it is to give it, even if telling it it's the right thing to do, sometimes we didn't tell it to maintain our relationships to others. (that's the main idea sustained in the text)> People fear facing the truth, as well as telling it, but in the end it might be our best option, cause the truth is worthwhile.