Question

Create a paraphrase of the following sentence from "The Cold Equations:" (10 points)

"No!" She recoiled from him as though he had struck her, one hand half upraised as though to fend him off and stark unwillingness to believe in her eyes.

Answer 1

She disagreed with exclamation, She looked at him with despair as he hit her. He keep on touching her as if she was being understimated.Then he looked at her right in her eyes and believed in her. ( I am not quite sure if that was all the information they gave you but if it is, I gave you my version of this) (which pretty much it's what you have to do when you paraphrase) Hope I helped!

Answer 2

Paraphrasing means literally, that you keep the general idea, or main idea, of a text, however long or short it may be, and communicate it by using other words. Paraphrasing doesn´t simply mean using a series of synonym words; it literally means to convey the same message but in other words.

As such, an example of paraphrasing here would be:

She could not believe him, and she reacted ardently by denying it all with her hand gestures and her word: "No". Her reaction was so strong, that she even put her hand up against him, as if he were going to harm her in some way.