What has this lesson's Castle Diary reading revealed about medieval society?

In "there will come soft rains," why does the author turn the house into a mechanical creature? a. to stress how well run the future will be b. to keep readers from realizing at the start that no humans are present c. to stress how scientific advances can create the perfect society d. to compare the present with the earlier, non-mechanical times

When i was young enough to still spend a long time buttoning my shoes in the morning, i'd listen toward the hall: daddy upstairs was shaving, in the bathroom, and mother downstairs was frying the bacon. they would begin whispering back and forth to each other up and down the stairwell. my father would whistle his phrase, my mother would try to whistle, then hum hers backi drew my buttonhook in and out and listened to it -know it was "the merry widow." the difference was, their song almost floated with laughter. how different from the record, which growled from the beginning, as if the victrola were only slowly being wound up. they kept it running between them, up and down the stairs where i was now just about ready to run clattering down and show them my shoes. what is the effect of the parallelism used in the above excerpt? it establishes the rhythm of a duet to echo the song. it expresses the same ideas. it mirrors opposite ideas. it is a paradox.

Juanito. hey, don't leave yet. what type of work? and where? who do i see? hey, don't leave yet! the duende. (the duende stops and turns). be careful. danger. danger. (he exits.) —blanca flor, angel vigl read these lines from the play again, then rewrite them as they might appear in a novel. the answer is 'hey, don't leave yet," cried juanito. "what type of work? and where? who do i see? hey, don't leave yet! " the duende stopped and turned back to juanito. "be careful. danger," he warned. as he turned to leave, he repeated: "danger."