Excerpt from: Life on the Mississippi
Mark Twain
THERE was no use in arguing with a person like this. I promptly put such a strain on my memory that by and by even the shoal water and the countless crossing-marks began to stay with me. But the result was just the same. I never could more than get one knotty thing learned before another presented itself. Now I had often seen pilots gazing at the water and pretending to read it as if it were a book; but it was a book that told me nothing. A time came at last, however, when Mr. Bixby seemed to think me far enough advanced to bear a lesson on water-reading. So he began—
What conclusion can you make from the first paragraph?
A) Mr. Bixby dislikes the narrator.
B) The narrator is angry with Mr. Bixby.
C) The narrator thinks Mr. Bixby is stubborn.
D) Mr. Bixby thinks the narrator is stubborn.
C) The narrator thinks Mr. Bixby is stubborn.
Answer: funny sidekick
The main desire: communication with the surrounding people.
Purpose: To belong, to conform.
Fears: To stand out, to be brave and as a result to be expelled or rejected.
Strategy: To develop the usual strong virtues, to blend in with others.
Trap: To abandon the "I" for the sake of merger, but instead to get only superficial connections with people.
Reward: Realism, empathy, no claims.
Answer:
A
Explanation:
it's easy you hardlier isn't a word and hardly is like barely
Answer:
The weather at the time is rainy.
Explanation:
Correct grammar.
Answer:
hope this helps ( i am not very clever so if it doesn't help, please delete this answer)
Explanation:
1) "'lady, i am sorry' whisper the boy"
2) "dragging the frightened boy behind her"
These both show how the boy is scared. in the first examples, the boy whispers which show that he could be trembling. the second example, (which isn't a good example) show that he is scared of the woman. the woman seems to want the boy to be scared and she doesn't have any respect for the poor boy, this is also shown in the line "she did not release him".