The short story is about The Nest by Robert Zacks. 1. Which word in the first paragraph describes one aspect of Jimmy's character?
2. How does he look upon his mum?
3. Why doesn't he like mum's words "my decision are made for your own good, Jimmy"?
4. "The Swanson's were a happy family; but these days a strange restlessness had come into it." What do you think could be the cause of their distress?
5. Why did Paul fling his arm over Jimmy's shoulder happily?

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-"The Nest" by Robert Zacks is about a boy named Jimmy who wants to go hiking with his friend Paul but his mother, Ms. Sawnson won't let him. -She tells Jimmy that she doesn't want him spending too much time with Paul because she thinks that he is a bad influence and not a good person.

chapter i -- paris: september, 1792

a surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate.

during the greater part of the day the guillotine had been kept busy at its ghastly work: all that france had boasted of in the past centuries, of ancient names, and blue blood, had paid toll to her desire for liberty and for fraternity.

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