Which description of Carter Druse from Ambrose Bierce’s “A Horseman in the Sky” is most accurate? A. Carter is young and unaware of what he wants from life. He uses his family values as a crutch to avoid deciding on the path that he wants to pursue. B. Carter is a spoiled and ignorant brat. He joins the army because he wants to anger and defy his family. He is also quite a selfish and unreliable young man. C. Carter joins the Union army partly because he wants to shirk his family responsibilities. However, he soon matures and never evades his military duties, even at a personal cost. D. Carter grew up in the state of Virginia. However, he chooses to join the Union army. While he defies everything his family and state stand for, he carves his own identity through this choice.

What word or words suggest they have a monotonous marriage? in the lamb to the slaughter

Read the excerpt from the war of the worlds, in which the first martian exits the spacecraft. a sudden chill came over me. there was a loud shriek from a woman behind. i half turned, keeping my eyes fixed upon the cylinder still, from which other tentacles were now projecting, and began pushing my way back from the edge of the pit. i saw astonishment giving place to horror on the faces of the people about me. i looked again at the cylinder, and ungovernable terror gripped me. i stood petrified and staring. what option accurately analyzes the impact of the narrator's thoughts and actions on the tone of the excerpt? the war of the worldsa disdainful tone is created as the narrator ponders the ugliness of the tentacles and turns to the shrieking woman. a melancholy tone is created by the narrator's thoughts of fear and refusal to avert his eyes. a tone of determination is created when the narrator thinks of escape and backs away from the edge of the pit. a fearful tone is created through the narrator's thoughts of horror and his glance at the cylinder.

Read the sentences and decide which letter (a, b or c) correctly indicates the subject and its verb in each sentence. in 1957, lester b. pearson sent peacekeepers to the middle east. lester b. pearson, sent 1957, sent peacekeepers, sent