English, 15.04.2021 05:40, FortniteB

Transform the mood, tone and theme of the given passage by changing its diction. Write your revision on a separate sheet of paper. Arthritic hands, and such work as he got, occasional. Poverty all his life, and there was no little breath left for running. He could not, could not turn away from this desire: to have the troubling of responsibility, the fretting with money, over and done with; to be free, to be carefree where success was not measured by accumulation, and there was use for the vitality still in him.
(excerpt from Tillie Olsen’s “Tell Me a Riddle”)

Lily, the caretaker’s daughter, was literally run off her feet. Hardly had she brought one gentleman into the pantry behind the office on the ground floor and helped him off with his overcoat than the wheezy hall-door bell clanged and she had to scamper along the bare hallway to let in another guest.
(excerpt from James Joyce’s “The Dead”)

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