Which statement best explains how the author develops Alejandro's complex view of his extended family in "One Thousand Miles"? At first, she shows how polite and gracious they are when talking to Alejandro, but then she reveals the mean things they say about him behind his back.

She captures both the minor annoyances his family members cause him with their loud and boisterous behavior, but also the happiness they bring his mother.

She shows their gentle and caring nature at the start of the story and then shows how they can also be unaware of how their behavior affects others at the end.

At first, she suggests that they are totally comfortable at Abuela Lola's home, but then she shows that the rest of the family is just as homesick as Alejandro.

Select the correct text in the passage. which part of this excerpt from homer's odyssey uses an epic simile? the king himself the vases ranged with care; then bade his followers to the feast prepare. a victim ox beneath the sacred hand of great alcinous falls, and stains the sand. to jove the eternal (power above all powers! who wings the winds, and darkens heaven with showers) the flames ascend: till evening they prolong the rites, more sacred made by heavenly song; for in the midst, with public honours graced, thy lyre divine, demodocus! was placed. all, but ulysses, heard with fix'd delight; he sate, and eyed the sun, and wish’d the night; slow seem’d the sun to move, the hours to roll, his native home deep-imaged in his soul. as the tired ploughman, spent with stubborn toil, whose oxen long have torn the furrow'd soil, sees with delight the sun's declining ray, when home with feeble knees he bends his way to late repast (the day's hard labour done); so to ulysses welcome set the sun; then instant to alcinous and the rest (the scherian states) he turn’d, and thus address'd: "o thou, the first in merit and command! and you the peers and princes of the land! may every joy be yours! nor this the least, when due libation shall have crown'd the feast,