"wow. what is that? " simon brimm remembers calling out to his long-time friend, hillary green. he and hillary had been friends since preschool, but they lived in different parts of the state now. they hadn't seen each other all summer. simon, hillary, and their families were taking a vacation together before middle school started next week. zavier gonzales and his cousins were also vacationing at the seaside that weekend. the wind had picked up and the seas were quite rough as swimmers, water boarders, and surfers struggled to stay afloat. separated from his family, and adrift on a small raft, it was xavier that simon saw bobbing along on the horizon. "he and hillary had been friends since preschool, but they lived in different parts of the state now." what explicit idea is stated in this sentence?

Stone, two or three feet thick, the door of wood and iron, a foot thick, and the iron grating which strained the light, i could not being struck with the foolishness of that institution which treated me as if i were mere flesh and blood and bones, to be locked up. i wondered that it should have concluded at length that this was the best use it could put me to, and had never thought to avail itself of my services in some way. i saw that, if there was a wall of stone between me and my townsmen, there was a still more difficult one to climb or break through before they could get to be as free as i was. i did not for a moment feel confined, and the walls seemed a great waste of stone and mortar. i felt as if i alone of all my townsmen had paid my tax. — “civil disobedience,” henry david thoreau based on this passage, how did thoreau feel about his confinement?

One important character trait which levi to compete well is revealed in the first paragraph. it is that a) he is often fearful. b) he thinks before he acts. c) he tends to be suspicious. d) he is good at finding hidden things.

Reread lines 6-7 "the survivor." determine how the tone of these differs from the preceding lines (1-5)