Assuming that you're referring to Mallam Sile,
well, during that time Mallam had just recently moved to town and He's not respected by the people of the town .(he was only a tea seller, and his wife is some sort of a debt collector)
hope this helps
Regretful would work because it is a synonym for deplorable
It is C. 857 is rounded up so it would be 860
Answer:
The story of civil liberties during World War I is, in many ways, even more disturbing. When the United States entered the war in April 1917, there was strong opposition to both the war and the draft. Many citizens argued that the goal of the United States was not to “make the world safe for democracy,” but to protect the investments of the wealthy. President Woodrow Wilson had little patience for such dissent. He warned that disloyalty “must be crushed out” of existence and that disloyalty “was … not a subject on which there was room for … debate.” Disloyal individuals, he explained, “had sacrificed their right to civil liberties.”
Explanation:
The author's use of language in these sentences affect the passage in that the informal language in "sore heads" and "pulled and j*rked" indicates the author experienced the same treatment as the patients, giving the passage a resigned tone.
After seeing how the other patients were treated in shock, the narrator seems to hope for a salvation from such experience, but eventually accepts what comes and has no other choice than to give up to the suffering.