It's actually, B. The news hit me like a punch, knocking the breath from my body and forcing me to sit down and pant. I just took the quiz and got 100
The answer is overstatement
In 1887, Hamlin Garland traveled from Boston to South Dakota to visit his mother and father, whom he had not seen in six years. According to his own account, the trip through farming country was a revelation. Although he had been brought up on a farm, he had never realized how wretched farmers’ lives were. The farther west he traveled, the more oppressive it became for him to see the bleakness of the landscape and the poverty of its people. When he reached his parents’ farm and found his mother living in hopeless misery, Garland’s depression turned to bitterness, and in this mood he wrote Main-Travelled Roads, a series of short stories about farm life in the Midwest.
Answer: O Many real-life prospectors came to the Yukon, but
only a small percentage found gold
Explanation:
Answer: First of all, Irving describes them both as miserly. In fact they are both so concerned with penny-pinching that they are willing to cheat each other. The wife will hide whatever she can from Tom, including eggs. In turn, he spends hours trying to find the stash of goods that she has hidden. Secondly, they both love to quarrel
