Which statement best paraphrases the author’s stated reason in this passage for describing Charley the poodle at great length? He is a large dog, so it takes a long time to describe him. The length of the description emphasizes his importance to the story. The author wants to show how much he loves his dog. The dog is unusual, so it is necessary to explain how he is special.

Analyze the central conflict and its in a story to discover the theme. resolution protagonist antagonist character

(1) fire extended humans’ geographical boundaries by allowing them to travel into regions that were previously too cold to explore. (2) it also kept predators away, allowing early humans to sleep securely. (3) fire, in fact, has been a significant factor in human development and progress in many ways. (4) other obvious benefits of fire are its uses in cooking and in hunting. (5) probably even more important, however, is that learning to control fire allowed people to change the very rhythm of their lives. (6) before fire, the human daily cycle coincided with the rising and setting of the sun. (7) with fire, though, humans gained time to think and talk about the day’s events and to prepare strategies for coping with tomorrow. the sentence that expresses the main idea is: (type the number of the sentence. then click “go.”)

"endangered dreams: the great depression in california: " which word best summarizes the author's description of the pea pickers camp?