Read the following passage, paying close attention to how the author develops the distinct points of view of each character. Andres and Neveah looked from the assembly instructions to the bookcase, and then back again. “This monstrosity looks nothing like the picture on the box,” Andres laughed. “It looks like it’s about to implode or disintegrate!” Neveah rolled her eyes at him, scanning the directions again to see where they stopped adhering to them. “Well at the very least, we’ll have kindling for the fire.” Neveah thought she had found the problem; she never left a job half-done. How is the fact that “Andres laughed” related to the statement that Neveah “never left a job half-done”? A. The author uses them to compare how well brothers and sisters work together. B. The author uses them to contrast Andres as ambitious and Neveah as easily bored. C. The author uses them to describe Andres as a humorous character and Neveah as serious. D. The author uses them to distinguish between the siblings’ personal preferences in furniture.

Which best explains how the viewpoint in the greenberg interview differed from that in the informational text on thurgood marshall. a. the informational article provides an insider's view of the brown vs board of education case; the perspective of the greenberg interview is more distant.

Read the excerpt from "the blackfeet creation." how do readers know that this excerpt is from a myth? the excerpt describes an animal called a muskrat. the excerpt describes old man drying the mud. the excerpt describes old man scattering mud over water. the excerpt describes how muskrat create land.

Javier is writing a literary analysis of the secret garden. read this introduction to his essay. frances burnett’s “the secret garden” explores the challenges of a sickly, self-centered little girl named mary lennox. after mary’s parents die of cholera, she moves from india to england to live at her uncle’s estate in yorkshire. while living at the old estate, mary discovers an abandoned garden that belonged to her deceased aunt. tending to the neglected garden brings mary joy, and her health improves. through mary’s transformation, burnett presents nature as a symbol of rebirth and healing. which piece of textual evidence should javier use to support the claim made in the introduction? a. “‘it’s in the garden no one can go into,’ she said to herself. ‘it’s the garden without a door. he lives in there. how i wish i could see what it is like! ’” b. “in india she had always felt hot and too languid to care much about anything. the fact was that the fresh wind from the moor had begun to blow the cobwebs out of her young brain and to waken her up a little.” c. “mary felt lonelier than ever when she knew she was no longer in the house. she went out into the garden as quickly as possible, and the first thing she did was to run round and round the fountain flower garden ten times.” d. “‘it isn’t a quite dead garden,’ she cried out softly to herself. ‘even if the roses are dead, there are other things alive.’”