Read the excerpt from lee child’s "a simple way to create suspense". like the old cartoon of the big fish eating a smaller fish eating a very small fish, you’ll find out the big answer after a string of smaller drip-drip-drip answers. the big answer is parceled out slowly and parsimoniously. which statement by karin slaughter shows a similar central idea? a) i want it to change them, and i want my reader to feel that change through the character, as if it's them. b) there has to be this peeling away of the onion, where you get to the core of the character as the story unfolds. c)i mean, you know, crime is such a great tool for talking about the human condition, and that's what i like to do. d)if you think about "to kill a mockingbird," for instance, some of those courtroom scenes are more tense than any grisham novel, you know.

Name five of the six points you should check,or have checked, when you are practicing your speech by recording it or with a f listening

[1] nothing that comes from the desert expresses its extremes better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas. tormented, thin forests of it stalk drearily in the high mesas, particularly in that triangular slip that fans out eastward from the meeting of the sierras and coastwise hills. the yucca bristles with bayonet-pointed leaves, dull green, growing shaggy with age like an old [5] man's tangled gray beard, tipped with panicles of foul, greenish blooms. after its death, which is slow, the ghostly hollow network of its woody skeleton, with hardly power to rot, makes even the moonlight fearful. but it isn't always this way. before the yucca has come to flower, while yet its bloom is a luxurious, creamy, cone-shaped bud of the size of a small cabbage, full of sugary sap. the indians twist it deftly out of its fence of daggers and roast the prize for their [10] own delectation why does the author use the words "bayonet-pointed" (line 4) and "fence of daggers" (line 9) to describe the leaves of the yucca tree? . to create an image of the sharp edges of the plant to emphasize how beautiful the plant's leaves are to explain when and where the plant grows to show how afraid the author is of the plant

Describe the misfit’s experience of the world. to what extent can his criminality be attributed to the conditions of his life? even though he is not in jail, is he a free man?