What effect does the paradox in this excerpt have on the reader? It causes the reader to think about the multiple meanings of the word bear in the play. It causes the reader to think about how doing nothing should be easy, but in fact can be quite hard. It causes the reader to realize that doing nothing is never hard work and that Algernon is wrong. It causes the reader to realize that Jack thinks doing something is always better than doing nothing.

Part b: which phrase from the text best support the answers to part a? a. “i don't want to talk to somebody when i go check in at an airport. i just either download the boarding pass to my phone or walk up to a kiosk and get it.” (paragraph 8) b. “you do not have to go far to find someone who disagrees with andrew mcafee, just around the corner to the office of another person at the same university.” (paragraph 11) c. “the set of things that machines do not do like humans is innumerable.” (paragraph 16) d. “you wonder if you're joining that long litany of voices who go down as having made the incorrect prediction one more time, but i think the facts are different this time.” (paragraph 23)