Select two excerpts from Passage 2 that help the author develop the importance of the steamboat in the town. “Once a day a cheap, gaudy packet arrived upward from St. Louis and another downward from Keokuk.” (paragraph 11)
“Before these events, the day was glorious with expectancy; after them, the day was a dead and empty thing.” (paragraph 11)
“The town drunkard stirs, the clerks wake up, a furious clatter of drays follows, every house and store pours out a human contribution, and all in a twinkling the dead town is alive and moving.” (paragraph 11)
“Drays, carts, men, boys, all go hurrying from many quarters to a common center, the wharf.” (paragraph 12)
“And the boat is rather a handsome sight, too. She is long and sharp and trim and pretty; she has two tall, fancy-topped chimneys,” (paragraph 12)

do I choose a paragraph???

"And the boat is rather a handsome sight, too. She is long and sharp and trim and pretty; she has two tall, fancy-topped chimneys,”

honestly, school in itself just seems to be a huge waste of time. a lot of people graduate but still end up not doing anything in college anyways, which really makes the whole point of graduating seem useless. i'd rather not bring anyone's hopes up then. what i'd recommend is for whoever's reading this to simply drop out.

i mean, kanye did it. he said something along the lines of, "don't let society tell you what to do." now, he's obviously a very successful person, and since his album is called the college dropout i guess he never really had to go through all that nonsense in order to become a millionaire. the same goes for anyone else then.

it is true my friend