Having Manuel tell Luisa the story of his grandmother in Claribel Alegria’s “Granny and the Golden Bridge” gives the story a(n) tone.

impassioned
conversational
sinister
solemn

But we pulled at the grill [on the ground] and it gave way. and then we saw iron rings as steps leading down a shaft into a darkness without bottom. … it was a great tunnel. its walls were hard and smooth to the touch; it felt like stone, but it was not stone. on the ground there were long thin tracks of iron, but it was not iron; it felt smooth and cold as glass. we knelt, and we crawled forward, our hand groping along the iron line to see where it would lead. but there was an unbroken night ahead. what is the most likely explanation for the walls described in the bold text?

George orwell intended for his novel to be a warning against totalitarianism. use examples from the novel to show things that are present in the novel that can be found in societies today.

Fill in the blank with the correct form of the imperfect tense. the children and i (watch) tv.