In a short story, a factory owner becomes wealthy by manufacturing parts for weapons. He has many
employees who work long hours for little pay. One day, the
man takes a walk in the forest and is overcome by the
beauty of the trees and the sense of isolation from the rest
of the world. He decides to sell his factory and take a job
as an innkeeper in the countryside.
Which element of the story most clearly identifies it as an example of
Romantic literature?

Which piece of textual evidence from the short story "civil peace" by chinua achebe can be used to defend the claim thatviolence has not ended despite the end of war?

Read the excerpt from cristina garcia’s dreaming in cuban.i don’t really want to talk about my father but i end up telling minnie how he used to take me horseback riding on our ranch, strapping me in his saddle with a leather seat belt he designed just for me. dad’s family owned casinos in cuba, and had one of the largest ranches on the island. there were beef cattle and dairy cows, horses, pigs, goats, and lambs. dad fed them molasses to fatten them, and gave the chickens corn and sorghum until they laid vermilion eggs, rich with vitamins. he took me on an overnight inspection once. we camped out under a sapodilla tree and listened to the pygmy owls with their old women’s voices. my father knew i understood more than i could say. he told me stories about cuba after columbus came. he said that the spaniards wiped out more indians with smallpox than with muskets.how does the structure of the excerpt add meaning to the passage? it includes historical information about the spaniards and indians to indicate the work is nonfiction.it describes the setting of the ranch owned by pilar’s cuban grandparents to explain family values.it uses several narrators to share their points of view about past and present life in cuba.it manipulates the chronological order of events to reveal the close relationship between pilar and her father.

Which best describes the author’s purpose in the excerpt you read from free the children?