Explain why the Americans agreed to pay the villagers for the trees that they already legally owned. Use specific examples from the story to support your answer. (Gentleman if Rio en Medio - WRITTEN RESPONSE)

Explain the effect of the rhetorical questions for the below paragraph. "i pinched myself: was i still alive? was i awake? how was it possible that men, women, and children were being burned and that the world kept silent? no. all this could not be real. a nightmare soon i would wake up with a start, my heart pounding, and find that i was back in the room of my childhood, with my "