Read the passage from a doll’s house. nora: good gracious, can't you understand? there was no old gentleman at all; it was only something that i used to sit here and imagine, when i couldn't think of any way of procuring money. but it's all the same now; the tiresome old person can stay where he is, as far as i am concerned; i don't care about him or his will either, for i am free from care now. [jumps up.] my goodness, it's delightful to think of, christine! free from care! to be able to be free from care, quite free from care; to be able to play and romp with the children; to be able to keep the house beautifully and have everything just as torvald likes it! and, think of it, soon the spring will come and the big blue sky! perhaps we shall be able to take a little trip—perhaps i shall see the sea again! oh, it's a wonderful thing to be alive and be happy. [a bell is heard in the hall.] how does the author use nora to explore a social issue? by exploring the benefits of living with no debt by showing that living debt-free is impossible by highlighting how easy it is to borrow money by showing that happiness consists of more than living debt-free

Read the excerpt from cristina garcia’s dreaming in cuban. i don’t really want to talk about my father but i end up telling minnie how he used to take me horseback riding on our ranch, strapping me in his saddle with a leather seat belt he designed just for me. dad’s family owned casinos in cuba, and had one of the largest ranches on the island. there were beef cattle and dairy cows, horses, pigs, goats, and lambs. dad fed them molasses to fatten them, and gave the chickens corn and sorghum until they laid vermilion eggs, rich with vitamins. he took me on an overnight inspection once. we camped out under a sapodilla tree and listened to the pygmy owls with their old women’s voices. my father knew i understood more than i could say. he told me stories about cuba after columbus came. he said that the spaniards wiped out more indians with smallpox than with muskets. how does the structure of the excerpt add meaning to the passage? it includes historical information about the spaniards and indians to indicate the work is nonfiction. it describes the setting of the ranch owned by pilar’s cuban grandparents to explain family values. it uses several narrators to share their points of view about past and present life in cuba. it manipulates the chronological order of events to reveal the close relationship between pilar and her father.