In lines 140-150, what hasn't changed is that the father still switches off the electricity generator at 10 p.m. and goes to sleep in his study. The expression "as was custom" marks that this has not changed.
The language that shows that the father is changing can be found in lines 141, 173 and 175-176:
In line 141 we learn that he does not use certain rooms ("rooms we'd stopped using").
In line 173 we read that the father "seemed lighter" and chatted with his son.
In lines 175-176 the father says that "now he might be able to come to the end-of-the-year recital" at his child's school.
Answer:

an invented long word said to mean a lung disease caused by inhaling very fine ash and sand dust.
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Answer:
The authors father felt pride in her work.
Explanation:
Sandra Cisneros was the author and her purpose was to describe her experience as an only daughter in a Mexican-American family and how it had impacted her life. Sandra Cisneros shares her experiences being alone all the time, trying to be noticed as "a writer, not just as a teacher", and always searching for her father's approval. This isolation enabled Cisneros to become a writer motivated by the desire to make her father proud.
So her father was very proud of her works after all that she struggled with.
It changes the word to an adjective or a verb