Read this excerpt from "The Piñata." The paste cracked and flaked on my arms and hands
from the heat of the garage. The old man pulled a small
pocket knife from his back pocket. He cut open the jugs
and taped the balloons to them to make a piñata form.
He looked at me once more, and I knew what to do
next. I returned to the bucket full of paste and handed
him strip after sticky strip.
Why does the author include this imagery?
o It shows the narrator's pride in his craftsmanship.
It reveals the uncomfortable, tedious nature of the
routine.
It illustrates the loving bond between grandfather
and grandson
It proves the grandfather's unkindness to his family
members.

Which is best evidence that mary is beginning to change

Ineed advice. i have a lot of friends at school but recently my best friend for some reason didn’t like our friend group. she wanted to switch to a new table during lunch. she said she found a new table where we would be welcomed if i wanted to come. i agreed because i knew i would continue to talk to them outside of lunch. after a month or two, my best friend got mad at our new lunch table group. so she left for a day or two, but i stayed because i actually kinda liked it there, even if it was kinda crazy. then she came back to the table. eventually i started to miss my old friends at my old lunch table. so i went over there for one lunch. then after lunch i sat at my new lunch spot before the bell rang. they all called me a traitor. so now i sit with my old lunch group, which is fine because i missed them, but i also miss my new, now old, lunch table. what should i do? p. s. sorry if you loose your last brain cells trying to understand this.

Which sentence in this excerpt from leo tolstoy’s the death of ivan ilyich suggests that ivan ilyich felt his family and friends didn’t understand him and neglected him?