Answer:
George and Lennie have a dream: to scrounge enough money together to someday buy their own little house and a plot of land to farm. They dream of roots, stability, and independence. They encounter other dreamers in their travels, those grasping for a tomorrow that seems always just out of their grasp.
Helen and Tom have received permission to take Ruth<span> and their other friends to </span>Snow Camp<span> for the latter part of their winter break</span>
He wishes his father would just listen to him about what happened to him in Vietnam and all the horrors he went through and give him credit for the 7 medals he had received for his efforts in the war. However, his father was in a rather depressed state and did not see medals as a measure of a man's ability or heroism. All his son wanted to do was get some of the pressures of the war off his chest and be admired some by his dad but it was useless and it just had to keep it inside. The guilt and the good that he felt was a burden he carried. He also wished his father would recognize what a good soldier he himself had been instead of withdrawing to himself after the war. As a result he sees and feels no use for his life after the war
B, because the colon is used to show an example or list of that subject being spoken about
8. b. comparison
9. b. comparison and/or contrast
10. d. time order
11. c. on vacation
12. b. there might be no yellow handkerchief on the tree
13. true
