Adamant means insistent or determined. It means refusing to change one's mind.
Here, she is so adamant that the speaker eats a healthy breakfast that she chases down the bus. That means she is very determined and uncompromising. The speaker WILL eat breakfast!
Peripeteia is also known as the turning point, the place in which the tragic protagonist's fortune changes from good to bad.
Answer:
B
Explanation:
The main idea is to present the feelings the person had before amazon became what it is today. I had my own misgivings about ordering on line until I realized that I really had no choice. I live in a small community of about 800 people. There is a Walmart in the next town over (which has a population of 5000), but I'm not fond of what they did to small businesses.
So the choice was shop at a place I don't like or order through the mail. I didn't really make up my mind until about 2 years ago. Then it was fine.
The author of what you quoted had many of the same feelings. It's a gamble putting money where the system can be broken into and that is what this is all about -- fear of trying something you don't trust.
The answer is B, I think
