<span>The description of the windows as empty eyes with a ghostly look creates a dark mood.
This poem is very dark in tone and by the descriptive words used. </span>
The answer is c.) He wants Jim to keep a journal on it.
"He said that would do. And that gave him another idea, and he says:
“Borrow a shirt, too.”
“What do we want of a shirt, Tom?”
“Want it for Jim to keep a journal on.”
“Journal your granny—Jim can’t write.”
“S’pose he can’t write—he can make marks on the shirt, can’t he, if we make him a pen out of an old pewter spoon or a piece of an old iron barrel-hoop?”
“Why, Tom, we can pull a feather out of a goose and make him a better one; and quicker, too.” "
Answer:
In the passage, ‘The Sand Reckoner” Marcus’s words about needing to disembark contribute to the plot because in paragraph 2 Archimedes is trying to play mathematical games with Marcus, but Marcus is trying to get Archimedes to be serious. He is trying to get Archimedes to understand there’s a war going on and he needs to focus and stop playing games.
Packing the abacus = Facing reality, and seeing that a war is going on, and Syracuse has protected itself. Focusing and attending to the tasks at hand.
