Read the excerpt from Immigrant Kids, by Russell Freedman. When their ship docked at the Hudson River pier, the immigrants had numbered identity tags pinned to their clothing. Then they were herded onto special ferryboats that carried them to Ellis Island. Officials hurried them along, shouting "Quick! Run! Hurry!" in half a dozen languages.

Based on the concrete details in this excerpt, which word best describes how the immigrants felt?

content
threatened
confused
indifferent

Twenty years gone, and i am back again on my own island. as for my change of skin, that is a charm athena, hope of soldiers, uses as she will; she has the knack to make me seem a beggar man sometimes and sometimes young, with finer clothes about me. it is no hard thing for the gods of heaven to glorify a man or bring him low. —the odyssey, homer based on what odysseus says in the passage, what has he learned? humans can become like gods. humans are under the gods’ control. humans can change from beggars to soldiers.

What makes the literal, word-for-word translation of the metamorphosis hard to read?

Why do playwrights use to tell the actors how to move and behave? diolougestage actions