Read the excerpt from act 2 of the monsters are due on maple street. 58. continued 58. by this time steve has reached the group. he stands there defiantly close to them. charlie go ahead, steve. what kind of "radio set" you workin' on? i never seen it. neither has anyone else. who you talk to on that radio set? and who talks to you? what do the stage directions tell the reader about steve’s response to the group’s accusations? he is pretending to agree with the group. he is frightened by the group’s anger. he is not afraid to challenge the group. he is nervous that the group knows the truth.

What did cherry mean when she said, “things are rough all over” ? the outsiders

Match the definition to the word for a better understanding of the paragraph. 1 money does not buy happiness or security. 2john ringling, one of the five brothers of the ringling brothers circus, started out in 1884 with a trained horse and a performing bear. 3for over forty years, he worked hard at the family enterprise, bought up smaller circuses, and imported new acts. 4in the 1920s, he was rated as one of the world's wealthiest men and owned every sizable circus in the country. 5over 5,000 people were on his payroll, and over 240 railroad cars were in his retinue each time the circus moved. 6at the time of his death, however, he was a nervous, unhappy man; he was also bankrupt and beset by lawsuits. 7his carefully built circus empire passed into alien hands. 8all those years of work had turned to dust. 1. business organization alien 2. group beset 3. without funds to pay debts retinue 4. troubled or harassed enterprise 5. strange; belonging to another person, place, country, or thing bankrupt

In the book hatchet why did brian think searchers would not find him