The answer is to help the reader visualize a house bordered by smaller cottages
<em>He was spending his summer vacation, as he always did, with his mother at Grand Isle. In former times, before Robert could remember, "the house" had been a summer luxury of the Lebruns. Now, flanked by its dozen or more cottages, which were always filled with exclusive visitors from the "Quartier Français," it enabled Madame Lebrun to maintain the easy and comfortable existence which appeared to be her birthright.</em>
The author uses the word <u>flanked</u> meaning, according to Cambridge<em> "to be at the side of someone or something"</em> to let the reader imagine a large, luxurious and expensive house surrounded by small cottages but equally important since they were exclusive to the inhabitants of the French quarter.
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The following are the compromise made before the Compromise of 1850:• The Missouri Compromise: Missouri was admitted into the Union as a slave state. However, Maine was taken away from Massachusetts and made into a non-slave state. It was done to balance out the number of slaves and non-slave states in the US.• Slave Trade Compromise: Slavery went for 20 years because of this compromise.• Connecticut Compromise: The Constitution set up two houses in Congress: the House of Representatives (proportional membership based on population) and the Senate (two seats per state). • The Three-Fifths Compromise: Slaves counted as 3/5 of a person under the Constitution for apportioning House of Representative seats.
It had brought racial discrimination to prosper for slave states. For Non-slave states. The Northerners were able to grow economically. They had railroads and had established industrialized states.
<span>I think the answer is Turner is relieved the beach is empty; he hates being watched by the townspeople because he is the preacher’s son. Since Turner Buckminster recently moved to the small town of Phippsburg from Boston, he is considered an outcast because he does things differently than the townspeople. </span>
If this is a true or false question, then the answer is True