Answer:
Denise assumes that the speaker is the enemy
Explanation:
B. She silently comforts her friend by squeezing his hand.
The answer is D
Explanation: In the second half of the passage it states that he haid sent them a "token of his very great affection". This of course means that the answer has to be D: the children’s host in Chesham still cared about them after they left.
<em>Answers</em>
Alliteration = B; The repetition of beginning sounds in two or more neighboring words.
Idiom = C; An expression that cannot be understood from the meanings of its separate words but must be learned as a whole.
Meiosis = A; A statement that downplays or understates the importance of something.
Answer:
The fact that Laurie's mother doesn't realize that Laurie is Charles develops the story's theme in the sense that:
A. The mother's fascination with Charles's behavior and excuses for Laurie's home behavior develop the theme that parents are often blind to their own children's faults.
Explanation:
This question is about the short story "Charles" by author Shirley Jackson. It is told from the perspective of Laurie's mother. Each day, coming back home from kindergarten, her son Laurie tells a different story about a boy named Charles who misbehaves at school. Laurie himself is misbehaving at home - being impolite, ignoring his parents, mocking them... Yet, <u>his mother and father never make the connection that Laurie is lying about the existence of this other kid. They become so fascinated about Charles, so eager to meet the mother of such a troublemaker, they don't realize their own son is Charles. They even take advantage of Charles's "existence" to justify Laurie's bad behavior, claiming Charles is influencing him. Blind to their own son's faults, it is only at the end of the story that the mother is told by Laurie's teacher that there is no Charles in their classroom.</u>
