Sea stars by Barbara Hurd Which word in paragraph 4 helps the reader understand the meaning of the word contingent?

Read the following excerpt from string by alice childress: maydelle. oh, look at you. if you had a nice suit perhapsnone of this would have happened. joe. l. v. got a nice suit, he got maybe forty nice suits andhe live in a pretty white house with a lawn in the front of it... but he cheatswhich statement best explains how the author uses symbolism in thisexcerpt? a. joe stands for the general turmoil that followed the years after thecivil rights act of 1964, which included riots and assassinations. b. with his combination of nice clothes and immoral behavior, l. v. represents the price some african americans paid in order toescape poverty. c. by describing l v.'s clothes in the same breath as his evilbehavior, joe points out that l. v. is only good on the outside, noton the insideod. the tension between joe and l. v. culminates in a physicalaltercation that is only broken up when the women in the playintervene.

Abroad thesis statement encourages your readers to learn something new. 1) true 2) false

What does twain find ironic and hypocritical about human patriotism?