Rewrite the following direct speech to reported speech. Last week a very drunk man got into a bus and sat near a skinny girl. She looked at him with contempt and said " you are very drunk. It is quite distinguish . What will your mom and dad feel when you arrive home like that?" He replied "does your husband sleeping with a dry stick or what?" ...etc

Last week a very drunk man got into a bus and sat near a skinny girl. She looked at him with contempt and told him that he was very drunk and that it was quite distinguished. She asked him what would his mom and dad feel when he arrived home like that. He asked If her husband slept with a dry stick, or what.

Explanation: Reported speech takes a dialogue said by a specific person, and changes it to its past form, to report the information to the listener. When the girl talks to the man, she uses simple present and future, therefore, the reported speech changes the tenses to simple past and would: "She told him that he was very drunk and that it was quite distinguished. She asked him what would his mom and dad feel when he arrived home like that." Then, the man responded with simple present, so it changes to simple past: "He asked If her husband slept with a dry stick, or what."

i have read the novel roll of thunder hear my cry by mildred d. taylor.

1. this isn't like any other story i've read or watched because it is about a black family in mississippi right after slavery in the u.s. had become illegal. most of the novels i have read were about slavery. another point is that the author of the novel used symbolism in a way i haven't seen before. for example she uses thunder as something negative meaning something bad will happen. but by the end of the novel, she made thunder a good thing.

2.   one character that changed during the novel was stacey. stacey is the eldest child of the black logan family. around the begging of the novel stacey was avoiding the white boy jeremy simms. he had a dislike for jeremy's family. but at the end of the novel stacey began to like jeremy.

3. the author starts the novel with the problem that the children of the logan family have to avoid the white kid school bus while walking to school.

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the quote relates to no dogs barked because the father and son learn a lot from each other. the theme is love because the father misses his son and they are trying to get to his mom where her dogs are barking.