Which of the following characters is MOST believable? 1.A 12-year-old genius who is also a star baseball player wins the Nobel Prize for curing blindness.

2.A teenage girl with a bad temper discovers that her best friend has a terminal illness.

What is the allure of fear? what have you learned from the story about portrayals of fear in literature?

What else do you think experts can learn from studying the language of written work? what do you think is the value of studying the language of william shakespeare whose writing is over hundreds of years old?

Read the excerpt from the land. of my brothers, i was closest with robert. i suppose, in part, being the same year's children made us close, but there were other things too. we had been together practically since birth, and we always took care of each other. when i got into trouble, robert was there to pull me out of it if he could, or at least to see me through it, and i did the same for him. the passage provides evidence of why paul and robert have physical conflicts. paul and robert avoid social conflicts. paul is the least influenced by robert. paul is motivated to ask robert for .