What impact does the description of the old mining area have on the story?
a. it explains how bleak conditions were after the miners left.
b. it sets the stage for contrasting henry's home to other cottages.
c. it creates the dreary atmosphere evident in the rest of the story.
d. it describes why people left the mining towns after the gold rush.

2read this passage from "the raven." what is puzzling the speaker in this stanza? 60% but the raven still beguiling my sad fancy into smiling, straight i wheeled a cushioned seat in front of bird, and bust and door then, upon the velvet sinking, i betook myself to linking fancy unto fancy, thinking what this ominous bird of yore- what this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt and ominous bird of yore meant in croaking "nevermore." s and what the raven's message is why the raven came to visit where the raven came from how the raven got into his room