The blast that swept him came off New Hampshire snow fields and ice-hung forests.
It seemed to have traversed interminable
leagues of frozen silence, filling them with the
same cold roar and sharpening its edge
against the same bitter black and white
landscape. Dark, searching, and sword-like, it
alternately muffled and harried its victim, like
a bullfighter now whirling his cloak and now
planting his darts. This analogy brought home
to the young man the fact that he himself had
no cloak, and that the overcoat in which he
had faced the relatively temperate airs of
Boston seemed no thicker than a sheet of
paper on the bleak heights of Northridge.
George Faxon said to himself that the place
was uncommonly well named. It clung to an
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and ends on page 3
Click the underlined phrase that uses a literary
device to make Northridge Junction seem like a
desperate person.
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hey! what was the rest of the question?

give correct answers

1) if the central idea of "nameless, tn" is "even the tiniest of towns, and the people living there, have value and meaning in this world," which of the following pieces of evidence from the story does not support this central idea?  

a. miss ginny keeps a deathbook of all those in nameless who have passed.

b. there was a doctor who cared about the people and the old way of doing things.

c. miss ginny doesn't like the look of the narrator's van.

d. the general store provided a variety of goods for all the people in nameless.

2)authors rarely state the central idea in narrative nonfiction. how can a reader find the central idea when the author doesn’t state it explicitly?

a. to find the central idea, you look for outside resources about the text and try to determine it through their analysis.

b. to find the central idea, you look at the details in the text: what characters say and do, the events that occur, important challenges or conflicts represented, and the setting. then you think about how these details work together to build and convey a big idea or message

c. to find the central idea, you look at the first paragraph of the story and make a guess.

d. none of these.