Read the following excerpt from Winston Churchill's "Their Finest Hour" speech presented during World War II:
I am not reciting these facts for the purpose of
recrimination. That I judge to be utterly futile and even
harmful. We cannot afford it. ... Now I put all this aside. I
put it on the shelf, from which the historians, when they
have time, will select their documents to tell their stories.
We have to think of the future and not of the past.
What is most likely the intended effect of beginning the speech this way?

in   ¨and yet the books¨   by czelaw miloz the tone is positive since it tells us that when we touch a book, it starts to live and the perspective is in the third person and turns once into the first person. in "the rhinoceros" by eugene ionesco the tone is illogical and absurd   and the perspective is in the third person since it is a play.

the significance of the title, "the passing", is related to the fact that the main characters, who are three african-american descendant women, are passing as white. this means that, because of their light-coloured skins they look like white women. one of the three friends, clare, is married to a white man and she lives in a white community and she has never told her husband that she is black. the title can easily be connected to the idea of pretending to be someone you are not and of losing your real identity in order to be accepted by society.