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In this passage, Willis is expressing that literature is a message from the past telling us about the lives of those before us. We are told that these messages are trying to tell us how we live and how we die based on others experiences. Willis tries to explain this through a concerned, yet passionate tone that urges us, the readers, to learn from the mistakes and the fortunes of the lives of people before us. We can only do this through literature, as it is the gateway to seeing how the world works.
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1. The weather has been cold recently.
2. She did not eat any fruit yesterday.
3. He does not go away very often.
4. Steve is reading a book at the moment.
5. I am watching the news.
i'm assuming that you are allowed to change the verb forms to fit the sentences. i hope this helps! :D
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B. Pip was how he pronounced his first and last names as a child.
Explanation:
This is what the narrator says:
"My father's family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue <u>could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. </u>So, <u>I called myself Pip</u>, and came to be called Pip."