The one you have marked as three is definitely one of your choices. They are possessed by laughter, but the counterbalance to that is the Sergeant-Major's horrified look in response. He cannot believe they are treating this so lightly. It is a serious business to him, and we will eventually find out that the family's response will get them into deep trouble.
My other choice would be sentence two. The wife is very lightly making a joke which the husband can really appreciate. She's not taking the problem seriously at all. She is making an illusion to the Indian Goddess (Lakshmi and who is the goddess of wealth and prosperity) who does have 2 pairs of hands. Mrs. White is asking that she have 2 extra pairs of arms to do her work; she is making light of the Indian culture that would hold Lakshmi in high regard. The Sergeant Major is not taken in by any of this. He knows their a deep mysteries on our planet and he's urging them to take these mysteries seriously.
Answer: 2 and 3
Answer and Explanation:
This is the poem "Teenagers" by Pat Mora:
One day they disappear
into their rooms.
Doors and lips shut
and we become strangers
in our own home.
I pace the hall, hear whispers,
a code I knew but can't remember,
mouthed by mouths I taught to speak.
Years later the door opens.
I see faces I once held,
open as sunflowers in my hands. I see
familiar skin now stretched on long bodies
that move past me
glowing almost like pearls.
As was described in the question, a simile compares two different things with the help of "as" or "like". The purpose is to attribute a characteristic of one of those things to the other.
<u>In the poem, the speaker is using a simile when she says, "open as sunflowers in my hands." Her children are now big, much bigger than she could have expected them to become in just a few years. It's as if she is surprised by the fact that they are no longer babies. They are grown, different, just like a flower is when it opens, when it ceases being just a bud.</u>
Answer:
He decides to leave so that all of the memories will return to the community, and they will have to face reality. He also leaves because he knows Gabriel could be released, and he wants to save Gabriel's life.
Explanation: