Outline major features of style from the blossoms of the Savannah and briefly illustrate

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

In “we wear the mask,” which message is conveyed by dunbar’s repetition of the phrase “we wear the mask”?

A. to transition the reader smoothly from one idea or moment intime to the nextob. to grab readers' attention and get them interested in the essay'smain topicc. to provide more supporting details about the essay's main ideasor topicod. to sum up the overall point of the essay and make a lastingimpression