Read the following excerpt from as i lay dying:
5.in a bed where people lie down all the time, the joints and seams are made sideways, because the stress is sideways.
6.except
7.a body is not square like a crosstie.
8.animal magnetism.
9.the animal magnetism of a dead body makes the stress come slanting, so the seams and joints of a coffin are made on the bevel.

which best explains how the structure of this excerpt reveals cash's personality?

a. it numbers cash's ideas to show that he is logical and organized.
b. it orders ideas sequentially to illustrate cash's idea of a perfect coffin.
c. it lacks dialogue to illustrate that cash prefers solitude to society.
d. it avoids paragraphs to show that cash has rejected tradition.

Read the excerpt from "mother tongue." lately, i’ve been giving more thought to the kind of english my mother speaks. like others, i have described it to people as “broken” or “fractured” english. but i wince when i say that. it has always bothered me that i can think of no other way to describe it other than “broken,” as if it were damaged and needed to be fixed, as if it lacked a certain wholeness and soundness. what best supports the inference that tan believes nonstandard english is no less valid than standard english? tan spends a lot of time thinking about her mother’s “fractured” english. tan has trouble thinking of descriptive words when she is writing. tan’s american education makes it difficult for her to understand her mother. tan winces when she describes her mother’s english as “broken.”