Read the passage below and answer the question. the mother would regularly castigate the young boy in public. she would tell him his clothes were messy, she would yell that he was lazy, and she would make comments about his intelligence. using context clues, how would you define the meaning of the underlined word castigate in the passage? gently correct, sharply criticize, strongly compliment, lazily remark

What type of external conflict occurs in the excerpt from “stephen crane’s own story”? it was now that the first mate showed a sign of losing his grip. to us who were trying in all stages of competence and experience to launch the lifeboat he raged in all terms of fiery satire and hammerlike abuse. but the boat moved at last and swung down toward the water. a. person versus person b. person versus nature c. person versus society d. person versus self i think its either b or d.