Answer: C
Explanation:
Stanley is used to difficult situations.
Answer:
The author presents the Reverend as an eyewitness to multiple examples of Scoresby's good fortune, which adds reliability to his account.
Explanation:
According to the book "Luck" by Mark Twain, the story is told of an English war hero Lord Scoresby who is a total idiot but managed to achieve legendary status by sheer luck. The Reverend was an instructor to Scoresby at military academy and tells how Scoresby somehow got through military school even though he is a complete idiot.
Therefore the author advances the plot through the use of the Reverend character by presenting Reverend as an eyewitness which adds reliability and credibility to his account.
Answer:
The sting that followed upon the striking of his fingers against his leg ceased so quickly that he was startled
Explanation:
The sentence in the excerpt that demonstrates a blunt portrayal of natural life is The sting that followed upon the striking of his fingers against his leg ceased so quickly that he was startled.
This shows that nature is indifferent to the suffering of humans. Nature tries to numb the man's fingers while he was about having a meal and despite the man's best efforts at gaining sensation to his fingers by striking his finger on his legs, it was useless because nature was unrelenting and indifferent to his suffering.
like it might be talking about/saying that this is a persons last chance
Answer:
pair them to the corresponding
And then I felt smaller because the teacher
was taking roll and he called out my name. self-critical
No, I felt like a magician slicing myself in half,
with Junior living on the north side of the
Spokane River and Arnold living on the south. uncomfortable
"My name is Junior," I said. "And my name
Is Arnold. It's Junior and Arnold. I'm both." Incomplete
But
were no other people named Junior
in Reardan, so I was being laughed at because
I was the only one who had that silly name
