Iwanted to take joe carp and frank reilly out to lunch to celebrate, but joe said he had to buy some things for his wife, and frank said he was meeting his cousin for lunch. i guess it'll take a little time for them to get used to the changes in me. everybody seems to be frightened of me. when i went over to amos borg and tapped him, he jumped up in the air.

people don't talk to me much anymore or kid around the way they used to. it makes the job kind of lonely.

—“flowers for algernon,”
daniel keyes

how do charlie’s coworkers feel about how he has changed?

they are happier since his operation.
they continue making fun of him.
they like working with the “new” charlie.
they are no longer comfortable around him.

Read this excerpt from holes. a patrol car pulled alongside him. a policeman asked him why he was running. then he took the shoes and made a call on his radio. shortly thereafter, stanley was arrested. it turned out the sneakers had been stolen from a display at the homeless shelter. that evening rich people were going to come to the shelter and pay a hundred dollars to eat the food that the poor people ate every day for free. clyde livingston, who had once lived at the shelter when he was younger, was going to speak and sign autographs. his shoes would be auctioned, and it was expected that they would sell for over five thousand dollars. all the money would go to the homeless. why does sachar include this description of the shoes in the flashback? a. to show where the shoes came from b. to show how valuable the shoes were c. to reveal why stanley was arrested d. to give background on the homeless shelter

What is tomas paine's central claim in this excerpt

Nthe final analysis, the government has not done enough to protect the endangered species of the rain forest. in the passage above, the transition in the final analysis is used to