Excerpt 1
I lay in bed, quivering underneath my blankets, staring up at the ceiling above me. I heard the pattering of feet, like a small child running on tiptoe. I turned onto my side and closed my eyes. Something was in the attic.
"It's just my imagination," I said quietly.
Scenes from earlier that day played like a movie in my mind. I saw my family's car turning off the highway. I watched as our car turned onto a winding road. The sky was cloudy, and the wind rustled through the Spanish moss hanging from the cypress trees. We drove into the darkness of the trees' shadows.
Excerpt 4
Jeremy raced to the beach and scrambled up onto a log. He pretended it was a spaceship. "Vroom! Roar!" The spaceship blasted off. Jeremy pretended he was soaring through space, searching for flying saucers.
That's when he noticed a small black head poking up from the water. Its two beady eyes stared at him. This creature was definitely not pretend. "Yikes, a space alien!" he screamed, leaping off the log. He dashed for the cabin and burst into the kitchen.
I think the best answer from the set of choices is the first option. R<span>eporters asking pointed questions about the government's response after Hurricane Katrina is not an example of public service journalism. Public service journalism in this situation should be more focused on the people being directly affected with the disaster. It should be more focused on giving updates on the situation rather than asking questions to the government.</span>
Because the civilization he was grown in keeps him from killing the pig
The writer <u> F. Scott Fitzgerald </u>,in his novel the Great Gatsby represents the American Dream because Gatsby had very little initially and then he rises to become wealthy and enjoys a good status in the society. Similarly in American dreams also the author talks about rising from nothing to becoming something influential.
Explanation:
In the novel the Great Gatsby, the author Fitzgerald make use of many literary devices like using <u>symbol</u> in order to draw its resemblance to the American Dream. The first example is the usage of Green light symbol that represents gatsby hopes and his dream life with Daisy.Another symbol which is the Valley of Ashes represents the bad consequence of the Americans obsession with their wealth
The usage of Symbol is meant to add fiction and to depict the relationship between the various character in the story