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The answer is d.Sentence 6
To answer your question, E.M. Berens was a male.
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I'm pretty sure it's "to show the reader how regretful Esperanza's mother is"
A play that ends with death is traditionally considered a tragedy.
A tragedy is a type of a play which ends on a sad note - usually, one (or sometimes many, even all characters) die, and usually in a very tragic way. Take Hamlet for example - almost everyone dies there: Hamlet, Gertrude, Claudius, Ophelia - almost every important characters is gone by the end of the play.