Answer: Providing commentary, separate from the narrative, which illustrates the wastefulness that occurred during the Great Depression.
In this excerpt, Steinbeck provides commentary on the reality of the Great Depression. This is separate from the narrative, and serves to provide more information on the setting and the plot. The excerpt describes the wastefulness that occurred during this time period. Despite the poverty and hunger that was common at the time, the oranges were sprayed with kerosene so that people were not able to pick them up themselves for free.
Answer:
-cratic means "a type of government". So, we know that "autocratic" is a type of government.
We also know that "auto" means "self". If you put "auto" and "cratic" together, you get a "self type of government".
So, in the reading, we can say that "autocratic" is a rule where only one person carries all the power in the government, like a dictatorship. We can also tell that an autocracy is a negative thing, as people are afraid of the government and there is political unrest.
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I think the animal hospital. But im not sure! Google it, maybe google can help