Can somebody me with these questions? they are due tomorrow.

1. We can tell that the text is from a play, because:

1) There are stage directions: Stage directions are given to actors and managers to tell them what they should be doing before, during, and after the dialogue is said.

2) The two characters, Ron & John, dialogue with each other, with no 3rd person view. This gives the audience the third person view, & allows them to imagine within context, unlike a narrator telling every bit of the story.

2. Stage directions tell you what each character should do before, during, and after a certain line of dialogue.

3. The mystery that emerges from the last given line of the play is the mysterious "ancestor" (that Ron & John share), that was supposed to be on the fate-bound ship Titanic, but (as a future person would say) miraculously missed the boat.

4. The first dialogue by Ron states that "[they] will never get [their] historical costumes done on time". We can infer from this statement that they are trying to create costumes for a play, most likely for a school activity. This leads to them searching in the attic for materials or costumes that they can use, and which led them to the telegram (or diary).

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chapter i -- paris: september, 1792

a surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate.

during the greater part of the day the guillotine had been kept busy at its ghastly work: all that france had boasted of in the past centuries, of ancient names, and blue blood, had paid toll to her desire for liberty and for fraternity.

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