Can someone me answer a few questions or tell me if it's right at least. i'll post the passage at the here as well, i just need some .

the author's main purpose in this passage is to

a) establish the setting-the time an place-of the story

b) resolve the conflict that drives the story

c) bring the story to it's exciting turning point

d) to bring the protagonist and the antagonist into the plot

honestly, i think it's a but the thing is i'm not entirely sure about that. the story is a bit confusing to me considering i've read it more than twice. , i appreciate it.

Read the sentence. bose ikard, a former slave, managed one of the largest thriving ranches in texas. which is the verb of the sentence? managed thriving a former slave bose ikard

Read the excerpt from ernest hemingway’s “soldier's home.” his father was in the real estate business and always wanted the car to be at his command when he required it to take clients out into the country to show them a piece of farm property. the car always stood outside the first national bank building where his father had an office on the second floor. now, after the war, it was still the same car. nothing was changed in the town except that the young girls had grown up. how does hemingway’s description of the town as unchanged impact the readers’ perception of krebs? it emphasizes that while the town has remained the same, krebs has changed. it illustrates that krebs despises the town he grew up in because it is boring. it demonstrates that krebs views himself as similar to the other soldiers from his town. it reveals that krebs is jealous of those who were able to stay in town and avoid the war.

What are the effects of parallel structure in this excerpt? check all that apply. it adds emphasis to the verbs that describe the british government’s oppression. it uses repetition to add power to the colonists’ growing list of grievances. it stresses jefferson’s list of grievances, giving the reader a sense of the amount of time the colonists have been oppressed. it emphasizes that all of these acts were carried out by the same person.