Read the excerpt by joe, telling pip about his father: "i'll tell you. m' father, pip, he were given to drink, and when he were overtook with drink, he hammered away at my mother, most onmerciful. it were a'most the only hammering he did, indeed, 'xcepting at myself. and he hammered at me with a wigour only to be equalled by the wigour with which he didn't hammer at his anwil. - you're a-listening and understanding, pip? " in this excerpt, the action of "hammering" a. has a double meaning, both of physically punishing and the hammering that a blacksmith does. b. invites the reader to understand why joe allows miss havisham to act the way she does. c. is a symbol for the kind of man joe seeks to become. d. is personification of a hammer.

What is darrow’s main argument and the claims he makes in this excerpt? a. darrow argues that even if the boys are horrible monsters, their deaths will not solve the problems of society; he claims that society wants the boys to be executed because people enjoy watching public executions. b. he argues that the people who should be held responsible for the crime are leopold’s and loeb’s parents since they neglected their sons; he claims that leopold and loeb were jealous of the boy they killed because he had expensive belongings they could not afford. c. darrow argues that the boys should not face the death penalty; he claims they both suffer from mental illnesses that make them unable to tell the difference between a dream and reality. d. he argues that leopold and loeb, particularly dickie loeb, should not be executed; he claims they were teenagers who didn’t have proper adult guidance, so they are not responsible for what they did.