In Brighton Beach Memoirs, how is the historical context of 1937 best conveyed through the character of Eugene Jerome? A. Eugene is a challenge to his family. He does not always cooperate with his parents. This was a common challenge in the 1930s.
B. Eugene is annoyed with his cousin. She is sickly and he is active. This was typical in the 1930s.
C. Eugene is fascinated with baseball and the New York Yankees. Baseball was very popular with Americans in the 1930s.
D. Eugene is smart and funny. He has many humorous lines he speaks to the audience. This expresses the humor of the 1930s.

Explain how lines 1-3 establish the speaker as an individual but also as a representative for all others.

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Select the correct text in the passage. which two lines in this excerpt from shakespeare's romeo and juliet foreshadow the tragic fate of romeo and juliet? friar laurence: so smile the heavens upon this holy act, that after hours with sorrow chide us not! romeo: amen, amen! but come what sorrow can, it cannot countervail the exchange of joy that one short minute gives me in her sight: do thou but close our hands with holy words, then love-devouring death do what he dare; it is enough i may but call her mine. friar laurence: these violent delights have violent ends and in their triumph die, like fire and powder, which as they kiss consume: the sweetest honey is loathsome in his own deliciousness and in the taste confounds the appetite: therefore love moderately; long love doth so; too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.