8. in "the minister's black veil," why might mr. hooper, on his deathbed, claim that everyone wears a black veil (lines 454–455)?

a. he wants to foster suspicion and fear.
b. he believes that no one is completely innocent of sin.
c. he realizes that none of his parishioners are going to heaven.
d. he thinks everyone mourns his tragic death.

He thinks everyone mourns his tragic death.

Explanation: Black is asscoiated with death and mourning. This is why he thinks everyone mourns his tragic death.

muir's use of diction creates a mood of urgency and fear. the highlighted words - difficult, difficult, force, crooked, struggling, tangled, fallen, fear, faint and hungry - come together to make you feel that the author is in danger. the imagery is clear so that it comes alive in your mind. diction can create a mood which can bring everything else together.

explanation:

mark brainliest and have a great day!

now, of course, the quality and the seasonability of these winter dreams varied, but the stuff of them remained.   they persuaded dexter several years later to pass up a business course at the state university—his father, prospering now, would have paid his way—for the precarious advantage of attending an older and more famous university in the east, where he was bothered by his scanty funds. but do not get the impression, because his winter dreams happened to be concerned at first with musings on the rich, that there was anything merely snobbish in the boy. he wanted not association with glittering things and glittering people—he wanted the glittering things themselves. often he reached out for the best without knowing why he wanted it—and sometimes he ran up against the mysterious denials and prohibitions in which life indulges.

there you go thats what we are missing