22 points which line from extremely loud and incredibly close reveals a nostalgic tone? even after a year, i still had an extremely difficult time doing certain things, like taking showers, for some reason, and getting into elevators, obviously. a lot of the time i’d get that feeling like i was in the middle of a huge black ocean, or in deep space, but not in the fascinating way. it’s just that everything was incredibly far away from me. it was worst at night. i started inventing things, and then i couldn’t stop, like beavers, which i know about. we used to greco-roman wrestle on the floor in there, and tell hilarious jokes, and once we hung a pendulum from the ceiling and put a circle of dominoes on the floor to prove that the earth rotated.

Read this excerpt from the exposition in "the monkey's paw." father and son were at chess, the former, who possessed ideas about the game involving radical changes, putting his king into such sharp and unnecessary perils that it even provoked comment from the white-haired old lady knitting placidly by the fire. what is one piece of information you can infer about the story from this sentence? a. the father in the story is possessed, so he probably says insane things a lot. b. the woman in the story is knitting, so the characters probably don't have good clothes to wear. c. the father is playing chess with the son, but the son is not old enough to know the rules. d. since the father likes taking risks in a game, he might like taking risks in life as well.

What do the excerpts have in common? both point out the tragic nature of situations in which children make journeys without their parents. both describe what immigrant children must do to survive when traveling to the united states. both explain why most children want to leave central america without their parents. both indicate the tragic problems and their consequences that children in central america must face.

Select all that apply. identify the objective case personal pronouns. i me you him, her he, she it we us them they