My lit professor is raising the bar for a good grade and as a result my brain is severely injured.
We are only allowed to use the verb to be and its various forms in four places. I currently have it in ten, and I am not finished with my paper. Would anyone like to help me find alternatives for most, if not all, of these strange things?
(1) Jim’s first loss of innocence is also the novel’s beginning conflict. [This is also my paragraph's topic sentence, which is terrible, so it may end up being scratched out entirely]
(2) Teenagers are characterized by acts of defiance and rebellion
(3) Both Antonia and her brother, Ambrosch, are thrust into a position of greater responsibility.
(4) . Jim’s decision shows that he actually defies the rumors that were spread about him,
(5) . Jim can no longer act like the child he once was now that he knows the pain of losing his parents and, as a consequence, the pain of losing his friends.
(6) ...instead Jim knows that life isn’t in his hands, but in God’s, and that he needn’t complain about where he is, or the tragedies that have come before this point in his life.
(7) Another situation where Jim loses his innocence, by his own hand instead of by fate’s, is when he goes out to the dances.
(8 ) He listens to his grandparents, loves them, and does what he is told.
(9) Now as a rebellious teenager, he makes the decision to go behind his grandparent’s back because he he knows they would not approve of him going to the dances, but it is something he would love to do.
I probably have others hiding in places. Some I fixed while going through it just now, and I'm sure I could fix some of these on my own, but I'm pulling my hair out...
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