Highlight descriptive details in this passage. The stripped beds, the breakfast things on the table, the pound of meat for the c
at in the kitchen - all of these created the impression that we'd left in a hurry. But we weren't interested in impressions. . . . So there we were, Father, Mother and I, walking in the pouring rain, each of us with a schoolbag and a shopping bag filled to the brim with the most varied assortment of items. The people on their way to work at that early hour gave us sympathetic looks; . . . the conspicuous yellow star spoke for itself. —The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank What do the descriptive details in this passage show? the desperation of preparing to hide the fact that the Franks had a nice home the reality that the neighbors did not care about them the annoyance of weather in making plans
The stripped beds, the breakfast things on the table, the pound of meat for the cat in the kitchen - all of these created the impression that we'd left in a hurry. But we weren't interested in impressions. . . . So there we were, Father, Mother and I, walking in the pouringrain, each of us with a schoolbag and a shopping bag filled to the brim with the most varied assortment of items. The people on their way to work at that early hour gave us sympathetic looks; . . . the conspicuous yellow star spoke for itself.
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