Read the two passages from a raisin in the sun. passage 1: man (coming in): you. beneatha: my mother isn't here just now. is it business? man: yes . . well, of a sort. walter (freely, the man of the house): have a seat. i'm mrs. younger's son. i look after most of her business matters. ruth and beneatha exchange amused glances. passage 2: mama (to walter): son—(she goes to him, bends down to him, talks to his bent head.) son . . is it gone? son, i gave you sixty-five hundred dollars. is it gone? all of it? beneatha's money too? walter (lifting his head slowly): mama . . i never . . went to the bank at all . . mama (not wanting to believe him): you mean . . your sister's school money . . you used that too . . walter? . . walter: ye! all of it . . it's all gone . . there is total silence. ruth stands with her face covered with her hands; beneatha leans forlornly against a wall, fingering a piece of red ribbon from the mother's gift. mama stops and looks at her son without recognition and then, quite without thinking about it, starts to beat him senselessly in the face. beneatha goes to them and stops it. beneatha: mama! mama stops and looks at both of her children and rises slowly and wanders vaguely, aimlessly away from them. which statement best compares the two passages? the first passage hints that the family should not trust walter with money or business matters, and the second passage confirms it. the first passage hints that walter is excellent at managing the family’s money and business matters, and the second passage confirms it. both passages show that ruth, beneatha, and mama will forgive walter for anything, no matter how foolishly he acts. both passages show that ruth, beneatha, and mama have a great deal of respect for walter and work hard to impress him.

The answer to the question: Which statement best compares the two passages, is, the first one: The first passage hints that the family should not trust Walter with money or business matters, and the second passage confirms it.

Explanation:

"A Raisin in the Sun" is a play that was written by Lorraine Hansberry, and it was first presented to the public in 1959, in Broadway. The story narrates the happenings of the Younger family, and the differences in view inside the family regarding the way that an insurance payment for the death of the father should be used. While Mother wants it for Beneatha´s schooling and a new house, Walter wishes to invest it in an entrepeneurship with a supposed "friend", without knowing that what this friend wants is to take the entire money for himself. These two passages precisely show the conflict that arises between Mother and Walter because of this difference of view. Now, the first passage hints that no trust should be placed in Walter regarding business matters when he assures the man that he manages all of his mother´s business matters, and Beneatha and Ruth respond to this by exchanging amused glances, which allow the reader to know that this is a barefaced lie. And in the second passage we get the confirmation of what is hinted in the first when Mother, after finding out what happened, and that the money is gone, starts hitting her son, in anger, not recognizing him as her son, until Beneatha intervenes. Not only that, but Walter tries to lie to his mother at first, until she pushes so much that he caves in and tells her the truth. THis is why the answer is A.

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in a place once known as north america, now known as panem, is a very rich city surrounded by twelve districts. every year because this very rich city, known as the capitol, is so rich and likes to think they control all the districts - which they do - there is something known as the hunger games! this is where two children, one boy and one girl from each district from the ages of twelve to eighteen, have to leave their families and compete in the hunger games, a live event that is aired on tv's all over panem. when katniss everdeen, aged sixteen from district 12, has to volunteer to take the place of her twelve-year-old sister prim after prim's name is called forth to become the 23rd member to compete in the 74th hunger games, she promises to prim that she will win! katniss doesn't believe she's coming out alive - but she's not going down without a fight.

because district 12 is so poor, katniss has been close to death many times from starvation but she's made it through it. but this is a different kind of close to death; this katniss doesn't know if she can survive.

she doesn't want to hurt, or kill anyone but when it comes down to it katniss' instinct is to survive. but when she starts to have confusing feelings about the boy from her district who is also her fellow contender, things get worse, and then she teams up with the girl from district 11 and only one person can survive. but who will it be? will her feelings get the better of her? will she let someone else win so they don't have to die? if katniss is going to win she's going to have to be brutal. she's going to have to kill!

answer: inference

explanation:

an inference can be understood as a conclusion to which a person is able to get based on reasoning. it is the same as a deduction, a guess, an assumption.   in the sentence presented, the conjunction "but" gives the readers an idea of contrast, and, therefore, allows them to induce that despite the opponent's characteristics, andrea had something different that made her win.