Which sentence in this excerpt from robert cormier’s “the moustache” reveals a character’s internal conflict? frankly, i wasn’t too crazy about visiting a nursing home. they reminded me of hospitals, and hospitals turn me off. i mean, the smell of ether makes me nauseous, and i feel faint at the sight of blood. and as i approached lawnrest—which is a terrible, cemetery kind of name, to begin with—i was sorry i hadn’t avoided the trip. then i felt guilty about it. i’m loaded with guilt complexes. like driving like a madman after promising my father to be careful. like sitting in the parking lot, looking at the nursing home with dread and thinking how i’d rather be with cindy. then i thought of all the christmas and birthday gifts my grandmother had given me and i got out of the car, guilty as usual.

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.

Plz halp. which statements are true about theme? check all that apply. 1.) themes are observations about life. 2.) themes can be stated in a sentence. 3.) themes and topics are the same thing. 4.) themes are messages a text conveys about a topic. 5.) examples of themes include loyalty, corruption, and greed. 6.)themes are rarely stated directly and need to be inferred by the reader.

Plz asap read this sentence from paragraph 3 of the article. the boys and girls are merely asked to obtain the signatures of ten friends or relatives. how does the word "merely" affect the meaning of the sentence? a- it suggests that asking people to subscribe to the washington times is something negative. b- it implies that obtaining ten signatures is not a requirement for receiving a prize. c- it downplays the fact that to win the prize, children must ask people to subscribe to the washington times. d- it emphasizes that children receive the prize only if they obtain ten signatures.