Answer:Esperanza has just been sexually assaulted at a carnival, and her narrative is confused and disjointed. She was at the carnival with Sally, as she likes watching Sally laugh on the rides. Then Sally disappears with an older boy, and Esperanza waits for her by the red clowns.
Orwell uses the word "tractable", which means easy to control. The word "docile" most closely resembles this definition when compared to the other words
I believe that the answer is “ they aren’t sufficiently brief” because the irony is that he’s expected to make brief summaries so since they aren’t brief then that’s irony.
