Reread this example of foreshadowing from "about russell" by rita williams-garcia. even when we were much younger, living in california, he would go out of his way to alienate our friends for no particular reason. he knocked over board games or just plain old quit when things weren’t going his way. which statement best explains how the author's use of foreshadowing affects the story? it create tension by highlighting the ways in which russell was a difficult child in order to suggest that he will prove to be a difficult adult. it create surprise when we later learn that russell lives a life where he has alienated himself from society and doesn't care about others. it create an understanding of russell's sense of humor, which he uses to avoid letting others know that he is in pain. it create suspense by hinting that, though russell may have had troubles as a child, there is potential for him to change as a grown-up.

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Select the correct answer. what opinion about russian society does leo tolstoy express in this excerpt from the death of ivan ilyich? the awful, terrible act of his dying was, he could see, reduced by those about him to the level of a casual, unpleasant, and almost indecorous incident (as if someone entered a drawing room defusing an unpleasant odour) and this was done by that very decorum which he had served all his life long. he saw that no one felt for him, because no one even wished to grasp his position. only gerasim recognized it and pitied him. and so ivan ilyich felt at ease only with him. he felt comforted when gerasim supported his legs (sometimes all night long) and refused to go to bed, saying: "don't you worry, ivan ilyich. i'll get sleep enough later on," or when he suddenly became familiar and exclaimed: "if you weren't sick it would be another matter, but as it is, why should i grudge a little trouble? " gerasim alone did not lie; everything showed that he alone understood the facts of the case and did not consider it necessary to disguise them, but simply felt sorry for his emaciated and enfeebled master. once when ivan ilyich was sending him away he even said straight out: "we shall all of us die, so why should i grudge a little trouble? "—expressing the fact that he did not think his work burdensome, because he was doing it for a dying man and hoped someone would do the same for him when his time came. a. the peasant class in nineteenth-century russia was full of honest and compassionate people. b. educated professionals gained influence in russian society in the nineteenth century. c. in the nineteenth century, middle-class russians were rich and well-educated. d. peasants more readily accepted unpleasant facts of life, while the middle class tried to deny them.