Read the passage from "a night ride in a prairie schooner."

he was a small edition of his father. he wore the same color and check in his hickory shirt and his long pantaloons of blue denim had suspenders precisely like those of the men. indeed, he considered himself a man, notwithstanding [underline starts] the tear-stains on his brown cheeks [underline ends].

which best interprets the purpose of the underlined imagery?

(a) it shows the reader that the boy is not very tough.

(b) it suggests that the boy is unhappy with this move.

(c) it reveals that the boy's mother is not taking care of him.

(d) it allows the reader to understand abuse.

(A) It shows the reader that the boy is not very tough.

Explanation:

In this fragment, the kid is physically fundamentally the same as his dad, he even acts and dresses like a grown-up, however from this underlined sentence we can comprehend that he is as yet a kid that cries and is touchy. Those tears-stains demonstrate the peruser that under his appearance, he can't shroud his profound emotions as grown-up men should do.

the passage can be best described as: "the british legislature extended an unwarranted jurisdiction".

we can say that because the text clearly states how the people of the colonies warned the british about their excessive desire to rule over them, without taking into consideration the difficulties their brothers had experienced in america: they struggled to establish the colonies, to adapt to new types of weather, fight with the natives, etc., and how they now see (or then saw) the only way out was to cut all ties with the british, since they ignored the people's petitions.

a.

the sky

and the mother was earth