Item 8 Read this excerpt from Scene 7 of The Glass Menagerie.

TOM: I didn't go to the moon, I went much further—for time is the longest distance between places. Not long after that I was fired for writing a poem on the lid of a shoebox.

I left Saint Louis. I descended the step of this fire-escape for a last time and followed, from then on, in my father's footsteps, attempting to find in motion what was lost in space—I travelled around a great deal. The cities swept about me like dead leaves, leaves that were brightly coloured but tom away from the branches.

I would have stopped, but I was pursued by something.

It always came upon me unawares, taking me altogether by surprise. Perhaps it was a familiar bit of music. Perhaps it was only a piece of transparent glass. Perhaps I am walking along a street at night, in some strange city, before I have found companions. I pass the lighted window of a shop where perfume is sold. The window is filled with pieces of coloured glass, tiny transparent bottles in delicate colours, like bits of a shattered rainbow.

What is the meaning of “for time is the longest distance between places”?

It suggests that Tom has lost most of his belongings with all his moving around.

It suggests that Tom has become somewhat of a wanderer with no direction or home.

It shows that Tom has put a great deal of distance between himself and his family.

It indicates that even though Tom has left his family behind, he can’t move on from their memory.

yes, they are. i think.

"get off of your lazy bum and come running with me or i'm dumping this pitcher of water on u " u say with a smile. she thinks your joking so she ignores you about 10 seconds later shes screaming wile water is dripping everywhere you say "here comes the second one! " then you here her say okay, your such a j e r k ! ill be ready in 5 put the pitcher down " she say in an angry tone. and you smile in victory

good enough?

explanation:

you only need simple sentences to answer this. just answer these questions.

what do you think annie thinks of the mother? do you think annie believes the mother is a fit mother for helen.

what about the father? what would annie think of him? she might not like him, but does she respect him.

how about the son? would annie think he is the only voice of sanity in an insane place?

what about helen herself? this is the key question. how does she see helen? what do you suppose she thought her first job was going to be.

these aren't hard questions. just state the obvious. annie is not that well educated: she just knows what she has to do. write it that way.

you can do it if you've read the book or seen the play or movie.

most likely the answer would be a.) cupidity

definitions:

cupidity - greed for money or possessions

hydrophobia - extreme or irrational fear of water, especially as a symptom of rabies in humans

pathology - the science of the causes and effects of diseases, especially the branch of medicine that deals with the laboratory examination of samples of body tissue for diagnostic or forensic

patho -   relating to disease