<u>Answer</u>:
In the short story “Civil Peace,” Jonathan feels optimistic about the changes that the war has inflicted on him and his family.
<u>Explanation</u>:
This short story by Chinua Achebe talks about the after-effects of the Nigerian Civil War. The protagonist Jonathan has a bicycle and his house after the war. He drives a taxi and makes a little amount of income. He comes back to his house with his family and all them pick up jobs to support themselves as well as to repair certain parts of the house. He then runs a bar for soldiers outside his house. He also receives an amount of 20 dollars for turning in rebel currency to the Treasury but that too gets taken away by the robbers who come and ask for money.
Despite everything Jonathan is positive and sees on the brighter side. He counts his blessings that is his life, his wife’s life and the life of three of his children. Jonathan wants to feel happy about life and not feel sad for those who died. His optimism shows in the repairing of the house, in opening the bar for employment and even when robbers take away their money.
Answer:
A) to demonstrate his fondness for his father
b) to emphasize his father’s muscular build
c) to point out that he did not resemble his father
d) to indicate that his father’s looks were not impressive
Explanation:
personally i believe its A because he talks about his father and how he took him for granted.
Answer:
Union troops bombarded Confederate forts, Union forces sustained heavy causalties.
Explanation:
In the middle of the night of April 24, Admiral David Farragut led a fleet of 24 gunboats, 19 mortar boats and 15,000 soldiers in a daring run past the forts. Now, the river was open to New Orleans except for the ragtag Confederate fleet. The mighty Union armada plowed right through, sinking eight ships.
Milo is a young man who experiences the majority of his days in a condition of shocking fatigue. This standard changes when Milo travels through the baffling pretend tollbooth that shows up in his room one day. Milo does not trust that anything he learns—numbers, words, or whatever else—is pertinent to regular day to day existence.
The direct characters in The Cask of Amontillado are Montresor (the first-person narrator) and the ironically-named Fortunato, his inadvertent enemy. No one else appears in the story, but reference is made to several indirect characters.Luchesi is a man known to both Montresor and Fortunato. He has a reputation as a connoisseur of wine and is therefore a rival to Fortunato in this respect. Fortunato contemptuously dismisses his expertise, but this may be mere bravado. Montresor uses repeated references to Luchesi as a form of reverse psychology to lure Fortunato into the vaultMontresor's disobedient servants are also mentioned. We do not know how many there are, but the fact that he has several makes us question his claim to be a ruined man. He has expressly told them to stay in the house and is cynically certain that this is the way to ensure their departureLady Fortunato is mentioned by her unfortunate husband. She will be waiting, in company, at the palazzo.
