Instructions: select the correct text in the passage. which sentences in this excerpt from john updike's "the brown chest" reflect the main character’s uneasiness with his family history? 1.(the lid on its brown had patches of yellow freckles. )the hinges were small and black, and there was a keyhole that had no key. all this made the chest, simple in shape as it was, strange, and ancient, and almost frightening. 2(and when he, or the grown-up with him, lifted the lid of the chest, an amazing smell rushed out--deeply sweet and musty, of mothballs and cedar, but that wasn't all of it.) the smell seemed also to belong to the contents--lace tablecloths and wool blankets on top, but much more underneath. 3(the full contents of the chest never came quite clear, perhaps because he didn't want to know. ) 4(his parents' college diplomas seemed to be under the blankets, and other documents going back still farther, having to do with his grandparents, their marriage, or the marriage of someone beyond even them. )there was a folded old piece of paper with drawn-on hearts and designs and words in german. 5.(his mother had once tried to explain the paper to him, but he hadn't wanted to listen.)

3 (The full contents of the chest never came quite clear, perhaps because he didn't want to know. )

5 .(His mother had once tried to explain the paper to him, but he hadn't wanted to listen.)

3. (The full contents of the chest never came quite clear, perhaps because he didn't want to know. )

5. (His mother had once tried to explain the paper to him, but he hadn't wanted to listen.)

Explanation:

n the story "The Brown Chest" it begins with a child who his parents have a darker chest in their loft.  

the child never truly gives any consideration to it since he says that this old stuff and he couldn't care less about ithe's mother endeavors to disclose to him that all that they have inside the chest implies however he just overlooks her.  

One day the child's parents begin pressing their stuff in light of the fact that their moving house. The chest had never been move and it was actually in a similar detect all the time simply like everything else however at this point he must be placed in their new house with a littler storage room.  

The child grows up and when his dad kicked the bucket he was left with the chest since they needed to pass it on to their generation, which the child would some time or another offer it to one of his son's.  

The child grows up and has 4 children, two of them got hitched and left and the other two stayed and he gave the chest to his third child.

the type of supporting detail is fact!

its definitely second person : )

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