I hadn't heard about that. They were burying fever victims every day? "How many have died, Mr. Carris?" I asked. The first-person narration is meant to help readers understand that
1.Mattie trusts Mr. Carris.
2.Mattie is unaware of the extent of the problem.
3.Mr. Carris is responsible for burying the dead.
4.Mr. Carris reads the newspaper.

One of the author’s purposes in the code book is to explain different types of codebreaking to his readers. which line best demonstrates this purpose? a theoretical breakthrough would be a fundamentally new way of finding alice's private key mathematicians have been studying factoring for centuries, and modern factoring techniques are not significantly better than ancient techniques a more recent development is the so-called tempest attack, which aims to detect the electromagnetic signals emitted . . in a computer's display unit if scientists could build a quantum computer, it would be able to perform calculations with . . enormous speed