The following question references the novel The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane, In Chapter 7 Crane writes "He threw a pinecone at a jovial squirrel, and he (the squirrel) ran with chattering fear." What
telling event had just happened before this scene? Why did Henry feel relief when the squirrel ran up into the tree to escape
the threat?
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Read the excerpt from part 2 of zeitoun. zeitoun woke with the sun and crawled out of his tent. the day was bright, and as far as he could see in any direction the city was underwater. . he could only think of judgment day, of noah and forty days of rain. and yet it was so quiet, so still. nothing moved. he sat on the roof and scanned the horizon, looking for any person, any animal or machine moving. nothing. as he did his morning prayers, a helicopter broke the silence, shooting across the treetops and heading downtown. why does the author include the details of zeitoun’s morning? to suggest the hopelessness of zeitoun’s situation to illustrate the solitary existence endured by survivors to establish zeitoun’s dedication to the rituals of his faith to reveal the military’s attempts at assistance

Which type of story uses animals as characters in order to illustrate a general truth about human nature?

Read the sentence. thomas jefferson himself worked on a draft of the document. what kind of pronoun is himself?