**100 POINTS & BRAINLIEST** Doing an assignment on Joan Didion's "on keeping a private journal" from "Slouching Towards Bethlehem" and I need some help, here are my questions.

-Restate the thesis.
-Explain the purpose of the essay?
-Who is the audience for the essay? How do you know?
-Describe the tone of the essay.
-List the different possible reasons for keeping a notebook mentioned by Didion.

Need ! how is richard characterized by alger in this excerpt from the passage? "to complete his costume he wore a coat too long for him, dating back, if one might judge from its general appearance, to a remote antiquity." he is exciting. he is intelligent. he is comical. he is happy.

  which statement describes the main argument of truth’s speech

The rich natural resources made the sacramento valley a "garden of eden." permanent villages were established about 8,000 years ago.which choice combines these two sentences from paragraph two to achieve a coherent flow of ideas? a) the rich natural resources made the sacramento valley a "garden of eden" and permanent villages were established about 8,000 years ago. b) permanent villages were established about 8,000 years ago and the rich natural resources made the sacramento valley a "garden of eden." c) the rich natural resources made the sacramento valley a "garden of eden; " and so the permanent villages were established about 8,000 years ago. d) because of the rich natural resources which made the sacramento valley a ‘garden of eden,’ native americans established permanent villages there 8,000 years ago.