Muffin - Susan Cooper
Answer:
War has been so much a part of their lives so it is normal to them.
Explanation:
Text evidence:
When a war has been going on for more than a third of your life, you feel it’s always been there. It seemed normal, to the children of Cippenham Primary School, that there were air-raid shelters on the school playground, long, windowless concrete buildings half sunk into the ground, and that they should all sit inside, singing songs or reciting multiplication tables, whenever the bombers came rumbling their deadly way overhead.
<u><em>Kavinsky</em></u>
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Explanation:
Frau Hermann, the mayor's wife, is the kind woman who gifted Liesel a journal to write down her own stories. This journal became what is known as the "The Book Thief".
Frau Hermann allows Liesel to enter into the library and let's her read the books. Though she caught Liesel stealing a book from library at the beginning, she was kind enough to forgive her and let her use the library.
Liesel who actually came to pick up and drop off the laundry at Hermann thought that the mayor's wife enjoyed at other's sufferings. However, as they get to know each other while reading and talking in the library, they become like mother and daughter. Liesel gets to understand how lonely and grievous Mrs.Hermann is after her son's death in the war. In fact, Mrs.Hermann takes Liesel into her home after her parents' death.
The increasing flood of opium into China was causing all manner of social problems (including corruption with colluding local officials). Attempts by China's rulers to curtail this flood -- while still refusing other forms of trade -- irritated the British. So too did the official Qing position that the British and all other foreigners were vassals and barbarians. As China attempted to shut off the flow of opium, Britain and other trading countries resisted every measure. Conflict became inevitable.
D) observed the narrator acting as if an invisible opponent were assaulting him
E) were witnessing a scene that caused a nervous discomfort relieved by laughter
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