It's pretty much asking you what the characters are like and what's the evidence in the book that says they're that way
I’m not sure what you mean but
Protagonist - Main Character
Antagonist - The obstacle the Main Character faces usually the villain or bad guy in the story but not always
Answer:
A "The spring of 1998 was the Halley’s Comet of desert wildflower years." (lines 1–2)
Explanation:
This is the excerpt from Barbara Kingsolver's scientific essey "Called Out". It describes events in the spring of 1998 and gives insight on magnificent and complex life cycle of desert plants.
The given sentence provides description of the highway medians suggesting that there were unusually many flowers, rarely seen before.
That provides evidence to answer A. which claims that that spring was the Halley's Comet of desert wildflower years. Halley's Comet is a rare phenomenon that happens only once every 76 years, so by making this comparison, the author claims that what happened that spring was a true botanical rarity.
Answer: Cuomo's contributed to the development of Quindlen's ideas. His mentioning that community and individualism are constantly at odds supports Quindlen's key metaphor
Explanation: we are a multicultural nation of diverse ethnicity, but we are unified as one people under one government. This is his metaphor