B. Operating systems! It manages hardware, software resources, and common services for computer programs.
Miller’s purpose to include this excerpt in the opening narrative was B. to compare the Salem Witch Trials with the political atmosphere of his time.
This introduction in the play signals a foreshadowing of what is going to happen as the events are recalled. However, Miller’s purpose throughout the play is to compare those historical events to what was happening at the time he wrote it. Arthur Miller sought to criticize Senator McCarthy’s prosecution of presumed communists US citizens by comparing it with the Salem Trials, in which innocent people were accused of witchcraft and later hanged.
1. Parents
2. Clams
3. Couches
4. Caves
5. Ranches
6. Armies
7. Dresses
8. Hobbies
9. Glasses
10. Arches
11. Arrows
12. Mosses
13. Props
14. Patches
15. Mints
16. Babies
17. Engines
18. Enemies
19. Supplies
20. Mistakes
This statement means that books are a tool that have the ability to take carry you to another world as a car takes you to somewhere physical, a book lets your mind wander to places in your imagination.
Without reading the paragraph this is a good guess. I would say War is irrational as the central idea and the supporting detail is Most people think war is irrational.