The boy in striped pajamas- what do you think the author was trying to convey by purposely have both boys ( bruno & shmuel ) share the same birthday?

Which verb from is used to indicate the perfect progressive tense

What can be inferred from the following sentence in the passage? then he asked me my name. scarcely had i uttered it when he made a gesture of astonishment. a) the sentence implies that the attendant knows the colonel. b) the sentence implies that the colonel is giving up on life. c) the sentence implies that the attendant is going to get fired. d) the sentence implies that the colonel recognizes the attendant's name.

In the myth of demeter persephone and hades what happens when demeter learns that her daughter has been kidnapped