Read the passages from the article "Kids Save the Day-'Heroes' Deemed by Coast Guard!" Then answer the question about implicit and explicit ideas.

"Wow. What is that?" Simon Brimm remembers calling out to his long-time friend, Hillary Green. He and Hillary had been friends since preschool, but they lived in different parts of the state now. They hadn't seen each other all summer. Simon, Hillary, and their families were taking a vacation together before middle school started next week. Zavier Gonzales and his cousins were also vacationing at the seaside that weekend. The wind had picked up and the seas were quite rough as swimmers, water boarders, and surfers struggled to stay afloat. Separated from his family, and adrift on a small raft, it was Xavier that Simon saw bobbing along on the horizon.

What implicit detail can be inferred from the sentence below?

Simon, Hillary, and their families were taking a vacation together before middle school started next week. (5 points)

Group of answer choices

The families were vacationing together.

The families were still close and enjoyed spending time together.

School was starting soon.

Many families took a vacation at the end of summer.

Select the correct answer. read this excerpt from leo tolstoy's the death of ivan ilyich: her attitude towards him and his diseases is still the same. just as the doctor had adopted a certain relation to his patient which he could not abandon, so had she formed one towards him—that he was not doing something he ought to do and was himself to blame, and that she reproached him lovingly for this—and she could not now change that attitude. "you see he doesn't listen to me and doesn't take his medicine at the proper time. and above all he lies in a position that is no doubt bad for him—with his legs up." she described how he made gerasim hold his legs up. the doctor smiled with a contemptuous affability that said: "what's to be done? these sick people do have foolish fancies of that kind, but we must forgive them. . " they all rose, said good-night, and went away. when they had gone it seemed to ivan ilyich that he felt better; the falsity had gone with them. but the pain remained—that same pain and that same fear that made everything monotonously alike, nothing harder and nothing easier. everything was worse. again minute followed minute and hour followed hour. everything remained the same and there was no cessation. and the inevitable end of it all became more and more terrible. based on the excerpt, how is praskovya fedorovna a character foil to ivan ilyich? a. she is kind and takes care of ivan, which is why he feels guilty about how he treated her for most of their married life. b. she is vindictive toward ivan while pretending to be worried about him, thus reminding him of how his family has never forgiven him. c. she plays the part of the worried wife without any real feeling, symbolizing the false propriety ivan upheld but now hates. d. she is young, healthy, and beautiful—everything ivan can never be again and wishes he could return to. reset next

In at least one hundred words, discuss how the man with the umbrella in sorrentino’s “there’s a man in the habit of hitting me on the head with an umbrella” is an example of an extended metaphor and what central theme he conveys.

What was the primary message that dr. martin luther king jr wanted to communicate in the telegram he sent to chavez