PART A:what emotion is the author trying to express when she describes the winn-dixie application process as “onerous” in paragraph 5

femininity is conveyed through bernice's personality. she doesn't act how the other girls act and everyone thinks she is weird. she learns how to act in a way that was considered femininely appropriate at the time. she becomes so popular but her attempts to be liked end up backfiring when she is pressured into bobbing her hair. the author wrote that bernice cut off her cousin's hair in revenge for tricking her to cut her hair. this was the authors way of trying to change the way feminine is defined and the way women are expected to act.

i think it may be b, i'm not exactly too sure on this. but b seems to make more sense.

absolutism the political belief that one ruler should hold all of the power within the boundaries of a country.