Rain drummed on the car. I watched the drops of water as they drizzled down the windows. They made lines that looked like a map a crazy map of roads that led nowhere. I could still see my brother’s yellow raincoat where he waited on the train platform. Soon, the train would come and take him away to college. We would wait there in the car until he boarded. The train took him away into the rain and the fog and the dark. It made me sad, so I tried not to think about it. Instead, I watched the rain fall. QUESTIONS IN THE COMMENTS

“dylan was a revolutionary,” bruce springsteen said in his 1988 speech inducting dylan into the rock and roll hall of fame. “the way that elvis freed your body, bob freed your mind.” early masterpieces such as “a hard rain’s a-gonna fall” and “visions of johanna” and “like a rolling stone” fueled a debate: are rock lyrics poetry? the answer must be yes, because on thursday, dylan was awarded the highest honor for a writer: the nobel prize in literature. the swedish academy, in making him the first american winner since novelist toni morrison in 1993, cited him for “having created new poetic expressions within the great american song tradition.” –“dylan's nobel prize settles debate: rock lyrics are poetry,” dan deluca what is the best summary of the author’s claim? rock lyrics can be like poetry. bob dylan was a revolutionary. musicians deserve nobel prizes. more americans deserve nobel prizes.

Keeping wolves as pets is wrong. wolves are not pets.they're wild and natural-born killers. people who keepwolves in captivity are self-centered and vain. they thinkit's some kind of status symbol to own a wolf. but wolvesneed to roam free, participate in the thrill of the hunt, filltheir bellies with raw meat, and socialize with their packmates.which type of appeal does the passage primarily use? oa. ethos

You often figure out what a word means by looking at the surrounding ideas, and this is also known as: using peripheral vision using common concepts using context clues using a dictionary