Read the excerpt from Flannery O’Connor’s “The Life You Save May Be Your Own.”

“It’s nothing so sweet,” Mr. Shiftlet continued, “as a boy’s mother. She taught him his first prayers at her knee, she give him love when no other would, she told him what was right and what wasn’t, and she seen that he done the right thing. Son,” he said, “I never rued a day in my life like the one I rued when I left that old mother of mine.”

What is ironic about Mr. Shiftlet’s comments?
A) He discusses his mother although he doesn’t seem to actually have a mother.
B) He has picked up a hitchhiker who has run away from his mother.
C) He speaks about morals after having just abandoned his wife at a roadside diner.
D) He clearly has no regrets about having left his mother when he was a younger man.

Does anyone read this story in 9th grade "when mr. pirzada came to dine"

What is the meaning of each underlined word in these excerpts from "a modest proposal" by jonathan swift? i think it is agreed by all parties, that this prodigious number of children in the arms, or on the backs, or at the heels of their mothers, and frequently of their fathers, is in the present deplorable state of the kingdom, a very great additional grievance; and therefore whoever could find out a fair, cheap and easy method of making these children sound and useful members of the common-wealth, would deserve so well of the publick, as to have his statue set up for a preserver of the nation. some persons of a desponding spirit are in great concern about that vast number of poor people, who are aged, diseased, or maimed; and i have been desired to employ my thoughts what course may be taken, to ease the nation of so grievous an incumbrance. the word prodigious means . the word desponding means .

According to the first stasimon, the chorus appears certain that oedipus is the murder true false