Scrooge could be missing his old friend because he was there at a time Scrooge was still a good person before they both were taken over by money
Scientist believe farmers will grow plants with black leaves. The black leave will be able to change sunlight into energy. Stain believes that these black leaves will help reduce poverty in rural parts of the world. He also believes that termites will eat rusty metal and trees will produce liquid fuel.
I hope this helps, sorry it’s a little long.
But none of the sentences are called capitalized though
Foreshadowing?? If maybe later on in the story they found out they were related or something