But it would have been worth any statesman’s money to have heard the profound discussions that sometimes took place, when by chance an old newspaper fell into their hands from some passing traveler.

what is ironic about irving’s description of rip van winkle and his friends in the passage?

the men aren’t really politically knowledgeable.
there were no newspapers during this period.
the men never talked to one another.
the men never talked to travelers.

What does the machinery in the hospital represent to the army major in the story? support your answer with textual evidence.

The difference between point of view and choice of person in a story is that "person" is the literary name given to main characters in a story, and "point of view" is the perspective from which we view the story "person" is part of a term used to describe the type of narrator (as in first-person or third-person); "point of view" is how the antagonist understands the events of a story the terms are interchangeable; there is really no difference between them "point of view" refers to the perspective from which the story is told; "person" is part of a term used to describe a type of narrator (as in first-person or third-person)

Which sentence you is an example of chronological structure in “the city without us”?