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Esperanza admires Marin because "she is older and knows lots of things". Marin is worldly, and flaunts a sense of sexuality that the younger girls are only beginning to discover. Marin also has dreams of escaping Mango Street, and appears to the others to have options which will allow her to do that.
The correct answer is B. Comparative form of adjectives compares two things or people. They are used in sentences where two nouns are are compared. For instance, "My house is smaller than hers.", "Your dog runs faster than my dog."
I believe it would be a, as the passage focuses on how they became more americanized
A simple subject is the thing doing the verb, but excluding any extra details about the subject.
In this case, the subjects would be “men and melons”.
A simple predicate is just the verb, instead of the entire verb phrase.
In this case, the verb would be “are”.
Gregor can't handle the furniture moving. He crawls out from behind the couch and globs onto the first thing he sees. It is a picture on the wall of a woman in furs. I think Gregor doesn't want to lose the possibility that he might become human again. The furniture reminds him of this.