When nate’s dad gets home from work, nate runs to him shouting, "daddy! " his dad sweeps him up in a bear hug, gives him a gentle knuckle rub on top of his head, then lowers him to the ground in a pretend choke hold. nate screams with delight, escapes the hold, and climbs on his dad’s back to ride him like a horse. inadvertently, nate hurt his dad while climbing, and his dad said sternly, "that really hurt. be nice! " what kind of lesson is nate’s dad teaching him with this bout of rough-and-tumble play?

The major was a little man with upturned mustaches. he had been in the war in libya and wore two wound-stripes. he said that if the thing went well he would see that i was decorated. i said i hoped it would go well but that he was too kind. i asked him if there was a big dugout where the drivers could stay and he sent a soldier to show me. i went with him and found the dugout, which was very good. the drivers were with it and i left them there. what effect does hemingway’s limited use of adjectives have? it slows down the narration by interrupting the action. it makes the few descriptive words he does use more vivid and forceful. it makes the narrator seem powerless and insincere. it prevents the readers from filling in the details with their own experiences.