Why does the author include details about the purchases the lin family makes at the rummage sale in "the all-american slurp"?

a. to explain how the lins become friends with their neighbors
b. to highlight mrs. lin’s talent for decorating their home
c. to illustrate the lins’ efforts to afford and live an american lifestyle
d. to emphasize the narrator’s desire for expensive items

Read the excerpt from julius caesar, act 5, scene 5. brutus. why this, volumnius. the ghost of caesar hath appeared to me two several times by night—at sardis once, and this last night, here in philippi fields. i know my hour is come. volumnius. not so, my lord. brutus. nay, i am sure it is, volumnius. thou seest the world, volumnius, how it goes. our enemies have beat us to the pit, [low alarums] it is more worthy to leap in ourselves than tarry till they push us. which prediction about the plot does this passage most support? brutus will replace caesar. brutus will take his own life. brutus will surrender to his enemies. brutus will be forever haunted by caesar.

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