Lucas arrived at his grandparents' apple orchard for the first time in years. The fragrance of ripe apples in the humid afternoon air was deliciously familiar. As he neared the farmhouse, his grandmother, his older sister, and two of his aunts crowded to the door to meet him. Their warm hugs melted away the years that had passed since Lucas had last seen them. "Welcome home, world traveler—I'm so happy we're all here together again!" his sister exclaimed. How is the theme of the passage conveyed?

Question 1 options:

The warm hugs and greetings reveal the theme of friendship and kindness.

The apple orchard setting communicates the theme of closeness to nature.

Lucas's being welcomed after a long time away shows the theme of homecoming.

Which three sentences in this excerpt from arthur conan doyle's "the contest" suggest that the author's tone is mocking?

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.

In the poem "we wear the mask," paul laurence dunbar voices his repressed anger and frustration toward american society. he repeats the title phrase three times in the poem, using the words mask and we to show that the first use of the phrase is matter-of-fact. in the second stanza, the statement is followed by a period, which shows resignation. however, at the end of the poem, dunbar almost shouts the phrase defiantly. the mask seems to become something he wears proudly. through this gradual emphasis on the phrase, dunbar could be implying that