used the backdrop of the Salem witch trial.
In looking at the answer choices, a few can be dismissed immediately. From the passage it doesn't seem that the dismissal of the narrator's questions affects her too much. Therefore we can eliminate answers that show a drastic change in the narrator's emotions (the narrator feeling inadequate, lacking control, and fearing she may be doomed). The only answer left is that the narrator is dismissed. In gothic literature women are often seen as helpless, innocent victims.
<span>D. They believe his father will be killed and they feel sorry for him.</span>
The answer would be the second option - love can overcome all obstacles. Nectar in a Sieve is a 1954 novel by Kamala Markandaya. The novel is set in India amid a time of serious urban advancement and is the account of the marriage between Rukmani, most youthful girl of a town headman, and Nathan, a sharecropper. The story is told in the principal individual by Rukmani, starting from her orchestrated marriage to Nathan at 12 years old to his demise numerous years after the fact.
You can use the clues "It only gets worse" and "the purpose of holidays" to infer the definition of the word.
Also, the prefix "de" means "do the opposite of", and "construct" means, to put something together, or build it up.
So you can infer that "deconstruct" means to take apart or break.
Hope this wasn't too confusing, comment the correct answer.