Read the excerpt from chapter 2 of The Awakening, He was spending his summer vacation, as he always did, with his mother at Grand Isle. In former times,
before Robert could remember, "the house" had been a summer luxury of the Lebruns. Now, flanked by its
dozen or more cottages, which were always filled with exclusive visitors from the "Quartier Français," it
enabled Madame Lebrun to maintain the easy and comfortable existence which appeared to be her birthright.
Which best explains why the author uses the word "flanked" to describe the layout of cottages in the novel's setting?
O to help the reader visualize a house bordered by smaller cottages
O to help the reader understand how the setting changed over time
O to help the reader visualize the neighborhood of the "Quartier Français"
O to help the reader understand Robert's relationship with the setting

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i literally just read the book and studied it for months so i could you, but i need to know where these questions are coming from. they are too general.

21 balloons is the story of professor william sherman's travels.

in 1883, he set off from san francisco for a balloon ride over the pacific and was found a month later floating with 21 balloons in the atlantic ocean. this seemed an astounding feat and everyone wanted to know what had happened.    

professor sherman was loyal, however, and said he would tell his tale first to the western american explorers club in san francisco, of which he was a member. this built up suspense for several chapters before he began to tell of the wonders of his adventures and the amazing island of krakatoa, an island which had just been blown up by a volcano.  

the residents of krakatoa are all millionaires who live under a "gourmet government" of their own devising. we get to see all the incredible adventures that creative people with unlimited resources would create according to the author.