Theme What is the theme?
The Boy and the Filberts
A BOY put his hand into a pitcher full of filberts. He
grasped as many as he could possibly hold, but when he
tried to pull out his hand, he was prevented from doing so
by the neck of the pitcher. Unwilling to lose his filberts,
and yet unable to withdraw his hand, he burst into tears
and bitterly lamented his disappointment. A bystander
said to him, "Be satisfied with half the quantity, and you
will readily draw out your hand."

What is one way that the author makes a distinction between the first transcontinental railroad and the first transcontinental passenger flights in 1936

Me ! it's e2020! review the line from karin slaughter's npr interview."and with each page, that's what i try to do- is say something different about the character, something different in the reactions when they find these horrible things that are happening, or they figure out a piece of the puzzle."how does this view contract with lee child's central idea in "a simple way to create suspense"? a • child feels that the characters are not important to the plot. slaughter feels characters are central. b • child feels that characters must be unattractive and uninteresting. slaughter feels they must have reactions. c • slaughter builds suspense through her characters. child builds suspense by delaying answers. d • slaughter builds suspense by writing puzzles. child builds suspense by telling anecdotes.

The major was a little man with upturned mustaches. he had been in the war in libya and wore two wound-stripes. he said that if the thing went well he would see that i was decorated. i said i hoped it would go well but that he was too kind. i asked him if there was a big dugout where the drivers could stay and he sent a soldier to show me. i went with him and found the dugout, which was very good. the drivers were with it and i left them there. what effect does hemingway’s limited use of adjectives have? it slows down the narration by interrupting the action. it makes the few descriptive words he does use more vivid and forceful. it makes the narrator seem powerless and insincere. it prevents the readers from filling in the details with their own experiences.