Please do not take my word on this because i am no 100% sure but i think it is B because he is using a metaphor to compare his life to crystal stairs.
Answer:
"John hopes the sleeping bag will keep the den dark and the bear calm a bit longer."
Explanation:
John wants the bear to calm down, and he wants to keep the darkness within his refugee by covering the entrance with the sleeping bag, He is hiding from the bear because he wants to avoid being attacked by it.
Answer:
transitive verb. 1 : to cause to be concentrated focused their attention on the most urgent problems
Explanation: that is answer thank you :)
There are a couple points that are significant about the boy finding his own drawings in the chest.
The chest was long the repository of things important to his mother. Finding his drawings in there showed him how his mother felt about him. He had created something that his mother deemed so important that she could not throw away.
The chest was also the repository of old things, things from the past. By finding his drawings in there, it was proof that his childhood was over, a thing from the past.