The correct answer is "to explore the possibility of the fire smoldering long before the cat was dead".
The author's does that to stretch the readers anticipation and therefore intensify the tension by slightly and alternatively moving the attention from the previous and subsequent horrific events, which will inevitably remain in the readers mind due the visceral nature of them, since it's a horrific tale that strives for accentuating feelings like despair and distress with frightening scenarios.
1. she must
2. you can’t
3. don’t need to
4. have to wait
5. can’t
6. aren’t to
7. can’t
8. mustn’t
9. don’t have to
10. can’t
Explanation:
to show that Americans and Iranians have always gotten along.
Here are some questions to help you get a good contextualization of the text:
1. What is the story about?
2. Look at the author of the text. Could there be some bias?
2. What is the theme? Any underlining messages?
3. Does anything contradict itself, theme wise or story wise?
4. What does the author want you to understand or grasp?
5. Does the author do a good job of it? If not, what did you actually gather from the story?