Is "the steak was cooking nicely" a perfect tense?

Consider tim o’brien’s story "ambush." what differences do you see between how o’brien dealt with killing an enemy soldier in the moment of battle compared to looking back on the moment later in life? what might this contrast reveal about the effects of war?

Give two details about the social and economic climate of the 1930s. were these details noted in to kill a mockingbird

In a short story the narrator's word choice