By including this intercalary chapter, what effect is steinbeck most likely attempting to achieve?
carloads of oranges dumped on the ground. the people came for miles to take the fruit, but this could not be. how would they buy oranges at twenty cents a dozen if they could drive out and pick them up? and men with hoses squirt kerosene on the oranges, and they are angry at the crime, angry at the people who have come to take the fruit. a million people hungry, needing the fruit—and kerosene sprayed over the golden mountains.

a)providing commentary, separate from the narrative, which illustrates the wastefulness that occurred during the great depression. b)giving readers a better understanding of the historic factors that contributed to the start of the great depression. c) creating a secondary narrative that runs parallel to the primary narrative but uses different characters and plot. d)carrying the theme of perseverance beyond the scope of the narrative by illustrating it to readers in a separate setting

Writing about thing people usually do

Read this excerpt from the scarlet letter by nathaniel hawthorne and complete the sentence that follows. she had wandered, without rule or guidance, in a moral wilderness; as vast, as intricate and shadowy, as the untamed forest, amid the gloom of which they were now holding a colloquy that was to decide their fate. the author uses the point of view in the excerpt.

Select the correct text in the passage. which sentence in this excerpt from abraham lincoln's second inaugural address conveys that he wanted the us civil war to end as soon as possible? neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with or even before the conflict itself should cease. each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. both read the same bible and pray to the same god, and each invokes his aid against the other. it may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just inging their bread from the sweat of other men's faces, but let us judge not, that we be not judged. the prayers of both could not be answered. that of neither has been answered fully. the almighty has his own purposes. "woe unto the world because of offenses, for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh" if we shall suppose that american slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of god, must needs come, but which, having continued through his appointed time, he now wills to remove, and that he gives to both north and south this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living god always ascribe to him? fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. yet, if god wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said "the judgments of the lord are true and righteous altogether." reset next