Which word best describes the tone of this passage?
i imagine a day when i can wake up, eyes clear and untroubled. wake up and think, what should i do today? the sad reality is that i feel this urge, an invisible clock ticking, spurring me to action. i wonder if it's just me. what of the countless others i see, rushing about with hurried steps and harried faces? are they pursued by the invisible hand of time too? they, i know, are its slaves, just as much as i am.
meditative
outlandish
desperate
sarcastic

Read this passage: there were old, half-rotten vegetables; bones from the evening meal, covered in white sauce that had gone hard; a few raisins and almonds; some cheese that gregor had declared inedible two days before; a dry roll and some bread spread with butter and salt. "am i less sensitive than i used to be, then? ", he thought, and was already sucking greedily at the cheese which had immediately, almost compellingly, attracted him much more than the other foods on the newspaper. quickly one after another, his eyes watering with pleasure, he consumed the cheese, the vegetables and the sauce; the fresh foods, on the other hand, he didn't like at all, and even dragged the things he did want to eat a little way away from them because he couldn't stand the smell. kafka, the metamorphosis (david wyllie, trans.) what can you infer about gregor from this excerpt? a. he enjoys disturbing his family by making a lot of noise. b. he is upset at being locked in the room and tries to escape. c. he is becoming less human and more like a bug. d. he is depressed and is trying to hurt himself.

Which  two  sections of text in these excerpts from virginia woolf's  mrs. dalloway  deal with the motif of water?

And that's poem by ruskin bond what does the use of the word heartbeat suggest about the narrator's attitude towards life