They drove back to the house to let the old woman off and pick up the lunch. when they were ready to leave, she stood staring in the window of the car, with her fingers clenched around the glass. tears began to seep sideways out of her eyes and run along the dirty creases in her face. “i ain’t ever been parted with her for two days before,” she said. which best describes the irony in the excerpt? a. mrs. crater has never been separated from her daughter, and now she must let her go for two days. b. mrs. crater’s tears are insincere because she is happy that her daughter is finally leaving her alone. c. instead of experiencing the joy of gaining a son-in-law, mrs. crater feels the sorrow of losing her daughter. d. as the two part ways, lucynell does not feel the same amount of emotional despair as her mother.

C) Instead of experiencing the joy of gaining a son-in-law, Mrs. Crater feels the sorrow of losing her daughter.

Explanation: an irony is a state of affairs or an event that seems contrary to what one expects and it often has an amusing result. In the given excerpt we can see the description of a situation in which a mother is really sad because she is going to be separated from her daughter for two days. This situation is an example of an irony because Mrs. Crater feels the sorrow of losing her daughter instead of experiencing the joy of gaining a son-in-law.

different strategies reach different people based on their ability to understand the material. (from personal experience) when writing an argumentative essay write explaining the subject as though your audience never heard of it before and it is just being introduced, then explain why other people hate it also, afterward you would explain why that would be wrong. i hope that : )

21 balloons is the story of professor william sherman's travels.

in 1883, he set off from san francisco for a balloon ride over the pacific and was found a month later floating with 21 balloons in the atlantic ocean. this seemed an astounding feat and everyone wanted to know what had happened.    

professor sherman was loyal, however, and said he would tell his tale first to the western american explorers club in san francisco, of which he was a member. this built up suspense for several chapters before he began to tell of the wonders of his adventures and the amazing island of krakatoa, an island which had just been blown up by a volcano.  

the residents of krakatoa are all millionaires who live under a "gourmet government" of their own devising. we get to see all the incredible adventures that creative people with unlimited resources would create according to the author.