Can you elaborate on the symbolism in "Through the Tunnel?"

My friends asked me, “are you not coming for the party? "change into passive voice

Why are danforth, hathorne, and the other authorities so resistant to believing the claim that abigail and the other girls are lying?

Read the excerpt from eighty years and more: reminiscences, 1815-1897. all that day and far into the night i pondered the problem of boyhood. i thought that the chief thing to be done in order to equal boys was to be learned and courageous. so i decided to study greek and learn to manage a horse. which question would best the reader understand stanton's viewpoint in this excerpt?