Read the excerpt below and answer the question.
i went inside then and in a moment he was gone. i watched him from my window as he went down the street.
he was whistling softly and i waited until the sound faded away so i couldn't tell if it was he or my heart
whistling out there in the night. and then he was gone, completely gone.
i shivered. somehow the darkness seemed changed. the stars were little hard chips of light far up in the sky
and the moon stared down with a sullen yellow glare. the air was tense with sudden cold and a gust of wind
swirled his footprints into white oblivion. everything was quiet.
but he'd said, "i'll call you." that's what he said-"i'll call you." i couldn't sleep all night.
this excerpt from daly's "sixteen" conveys a
complacent
forlorn
gloomy
apprehensive

I'm scared to talk to people what can i do to with this?

Why does the author introduce druse as lying in a “clump of laurel”? consider any symbolic or cultural meanings associated with this plant, and what significance it lends to this particular story. story "a horseman in the sky"

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.