His mom finally peered through the cracked door that johnny normally kept locked. 2the bedding was draped over a painting easel and placed near the window at the back of the room, which seemed to function as a shade in place of the curtains that lay next to their rod on the floor near the window. 3to the left was the bed: a bare mattress with stains and what appeared to be chewed holes resting askew on a box springs sitting on the floor. 4a single flat, gray pillow with no case was its only adornment. 5on the other side of the room, the sliding closet doors rested unhinged on the wall next to the closet. 6the closet itself featured a broken shelf and huge pile of clothing and various sporting items including a fishing pole, several balls of various types, what appeared to be a broken snowboard, a tennis racket, some bent golf clubs and other unidentifiable objects concealed to different degrees by the slew of disorder. 7the unkempt carpet resembled concrete, with unvacuumed dirt packed hard over the fibers. 8and the smell! 9indeed, the bedroom resembled the aftermath of some horrific natural disaster. 10her agreement to give him the privacy of his own room had been rescinded.

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If your job was precarious,would you look for a new one? explain.

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Select the correct answer. read this excerpt from leo tolstoy's the death of ivan ilyich: her attitude towards him and his diseases is still the same. just as the doctor had adopted a certain relation to his patient which he could not abandon, so had she formed one towards him—that he was not doing something he ought to do and was himself to blame, and that she reproached him lovingly for this—and she could not now change that attitude. "you see he doesn't listen to me and doesn't take his medicine at the proper time. and above all he lies in a position that is no doubt bad for him—with his legs up." she described how he made gerasim hold his legs up. the doctor smiled with a contemptuous affability that said: "what's to be done? these sick people do have foolish fancies of that kind, but we must forgive them. . " they all rose, said good-night, and went away. when they had gone it seemed to ivan ilyich that he felt better; the falsity had gone with them. but the pain remained—that same pain and that same fear that made everything monotonously alike, nothing harder and nothing easier. everything was worse. again minute followed minute and hour followed hour. everything remained the same and there was no cessation. and the inevitable end of it all became more and more terrible. based on the excerpt, how is praskovya fedorovna a character foil to ivan ilyich? a. she is kind and takes care of ivan, which is why he feels guilty about how he treated her for most of their married life. b. she is vindictive toward ivan while pretending to be worried about him, thus reminding him of how his family has never forgiven him. c. she plays the part of the worried wife without any real feeling, symbolizing the false propriety ivan upheld but now hates. d. she is young, healthy, and beautiful—everything ivan can never be again and wishes he could return to. reset next