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read the following essay.

which two sentences does the author use to inform the audience about the entire main topic of the essay?

every teenager looks forward to summer vacation. finals are over. you can just kick back and relax. you can read whatever you want, go wherever you want, watch tv all day, or surf the internet. the days stretch out, full of fun and laughs. every teenager looks forward to summer vacation.
every teenager—except me.
dad would gather us around the dinner table and give us this year’s destination. we couldn’t refuse. to dad, it was sacred family time. so we smiled and looked excited. then we would all pile into the car. just the four of us—dad, mom, my sister, and me—would have been somewhat bearable. but for my dad, the summer trip was not just family time, but extended family time.

Which two passages in this excerpt from the death of ivan illych does leo tolstoy use to suggest that ivan ilych feels like his life is slipping away from him? "what's the use? it makes no difference," he said to himself, staring with wide-open eyes into the darkness. "death. yes, death. and none of them knows or wishes to know it, and they have no pity for me. now they are playing." (he heard through the door the distant sound of a song and its accompaniment.) "it's all the same to them, but they will die too! fools! i first, and they later, but it will be the same for them. and now they are merry . . the beasts! " anger choked him and he was agonizingly, unbearably miserable. "it is impossible that all men have been doomed to suffer this awful horror! " he raised himself. "something must be wrong. i must calm myself—must think it all over from the beginning." and he again began thinking. "yes, the beginning of my illness: i knocked my side, but i was still quite well that day and the next. it hurt a little, then rather more. i saw the doctors, then followed despondency and anguish, more doctors, and i drew nearer to the abyss. my strength grew less and i kept coming nearer and nearer, and now i have wasted away and there is no light in my eyes.

What is the independent cause in this sentence? "if the poem is about going mad when love is lost, what would happen if love didn't die? "

Iback to my office after i saw the rain.