If the author wanted to write a story in which the main character looks back on the events of his long, full life, which would be the best way to start this story?

a) with the main character as a teenager in high school
b) with the main character as an 85-year old man, deep in thought about everything he has been through over the course of his life
c) with the main character as a 25-year old in his first job
d) with the main character as a four year old wondering about his future.

Read the passage from sugar changed the world. for an african, whether you were sent to the caribbean or south america, you were now part of the sugar machine. and it did not much matter where your ship landed. you could be working the fertile fields of brazil or the hills of jamaica; the brutal cycle of making sugar was much the same. how does the use of the word machine support the authors' claim in this passage? its negative connotation indicates that enslaved people had to work like robots instead of human beings. its negative denotation indicates that some people preferred handmade sugar over factory-produced sugar. its positive connotation indicates that plantations ran efficiently and produced huge amounts of sugar. its positive denotation indicates that it was easier for enslaved people to make sugar with machines.