HELP PLEASE ITS DUE IN 5 MINUTES ! Read the excerpt below from “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” and answer the question that follows. [A]ll through the interminable narrative there ran a vein of impressive earnestness and sincerity ...
Based on the language style, who can you infer is the speaker in this excerpt?

Jim Smiley
Leonidas W. Smiley
Simon Wheeler
the narrator

What does"after getting my report card i knew it was time to hit the books mean

Read the statement while people must take responsibility for their own actions people cannot be held responsible for the physical characteristics are born with which statement most similar to perspective in the lliad

With crack on crack of thunder, zeus let fly a bolt against the ship, a direct hit, so that she bucked, in reeking fumes of sulphur, and all the men were flung into the sea. they came up 'round the wreck, bobbing a while like petrels on the waves. no more seafaring homeward for these, no sweet day of return; the god had turned his face from them. –the odyssey, homer read the passage. then, identify the theme that is supported by the passage. most ships cannot survive a terrible thunderstorm. the ocean is an angry beast that will tame any who try to control it. the gods have the power to control human destiny. men are willing to die to eat the delicious cattle of the gods.