Belinda needs to complete a 30-page reading assignment. She waits until the day before the reading is due and then tries to read the whole assignment at one time.

Which of the following reading guidelines would be the most effective for Belinda to begin following?

a. Find a quiet place

b. Gather your materals

c. Divide the assignment into
doable parts

I think A

Explanation: Because being in a quite space before doing anything like that will give you time to think and it won’t be distracting

The themes developed in the excerpt are the following ones:

a- kinship

and

c- tradition vs change

Kinship: blood relationship. The excerpt shows a father talking about and disapproving of his son. The father can't believe his own son behaves in such an erratic way (according to how he feels about it). We can see it in the following passage: "For how else could he explain his great misfortune and exile and now his son’s despicable behavior?"

Tradition vs change: the father criticizes his son for having abandoned family traditions and for hanging out with a bunch of atypical guys: "To abandon the gods of one’s father and go about with a lot of effeminate men clucking like old hens was the very depth of abomination."