Hey there !
First one is the second blue highlight, this focuses more on the alienation aspect.
Second one you are correct!
b. listen with empathy
The key characteristic for one listening with empathy is to give the speaker your undivided attention. Because Jeff fell asleep, he obviously had not been providing this. Further, when one is empathetic, one is able to understand the position/place of someone else. Obviously, if Jeff were speaking, he would want his audience to pay attention, so he should have recognized this and been conscious of that for Elizabeth. By Jeff falling asleep, he does not understand the perspective of someone else in order to recognize how to respectfully listen (or listen with empathy).
Answer:The ‘Watching the World from the Riverbank’, is trying to send the readers or communicate through the readers by having them to know about the world and how reality runs in every society or in the world that we live in and by that, it is trying to focus on the rules of reality in which is the main focus in the story. The correct answer is letter b.
Explanation:
Your answer is D. vision.
B. Direct Object.
Hope this helped.