I will be forever indebted to Wendell because, without his even knowing it, his recommendation was in the end partly responsible for my career. At the time, it started a thorough investigation of my background. . . . He had me transfixed as he spoke. I could feel his sincerity, and I began to get a sense of how much this major step meant to him.

—I Never Had it Made,
Jackie Robinson, as told to Alfred Duckett

What does the word transfixed mean in the context of this paragraph?

fascinated
crying
helpless
laughing

Which best defines a literary stereotype and its purpose in literary? a- a literary stereotype is a term used interchangeably with prejudice.b- a literary stereotypes creates conflict and contrast how a character may seem with who a character really is. c- a literary stereotypes has no purpose in literary in literary expect to reveal prejudice and express the views of an antagonist. d- a literary stereotype is a way for the writer to indicate whether a character is good or evil, a protagonist or an antagonist.

How does the author foreshadow trouble in the prison? support your answer with explicit textual evidence

One of the author’s purposes in the code book is to explain different types of codebreaking to his readers. which line best demonstrates this purpose? a theoretical breakthrough would be a fundamentally new way of finding alice's private key mathematicians have been studying factoring for centuries, and modern factoring techniques are not significantly better than ancient techniques a more recent development is the so-called tempest attack, which aims to detect the electromagnetic signals emitted . . in a computer's display unit if scientists could build a quantum computer, it would be able to perform calculations with . . enormous speed