Read the following excerpt from Hard Times by Charles Dickens, and answer the question
Stephen looked older, but he had had a hard life. It was said that every life has its roses and thoms, there
seemed, however, to have been a misadventure or mistake in Stephen's case, whereby somebody else had
become possessed of his roses, and he had become possessed of the same somebody else's thoms in
addition to his own. He had known to use his words, a peck of trouble. He was usually called Old Stephen in
a kind of rough homage to the fact
What is the tone of this passage?
satirical
pitiful
mitted
impatient

Read the excerpt from "home front diary." jimmy simmons stopped by today to tell me that he had enlisted in the army. he asked me if i would write to him, and i said i would. i told him that i've been writing to my uncle arthur and susan's cousin john for about a year, and as an experienced correspondent i had some advice about all the censorship. "don't write down any information about your location or the number of soldiers in your unit because the censors will cut all of that away," i said. "in my experience, loose lips not only sink ships, they make letters look like snowflake decorations! ” well, he belly laughed over that one. how is the author's perspective different from jimmy's? the author has been to war and she can give jimmy advice. jimmy has become a soldier and does not believe the author’s advice. the author has experience writing to soldiers but jimmy does not. jimmy has more experience at letter writing than the author.