Read this excerpt from "eavesdropping" by eudora welty and answer the question. what they talked about, i have no idea … . it was no doubt whatever a young married couple spending their first time privately in each other’s company in the long, probably harried day would talk about. it was the murmur of their voices, the back-and-forth, the unnoticed stretching away of time between my bedtime and theirs, that made me bask there at my distance. what i felt was not that i was excluded from them but that i was included, in – and because of – what i could hear in their voices and what i could see of their faces in the cone of yellow light under the brown-scorched shade. which of the following best describes welty’s purpose for this narrative in the excerpt? to interpret her life with commentary to entertain with stories to educate about marriage to give a sense of place

Using the library or the internet as a resource, locate and watch two different live production interpretations of act iii of our town. then, compare and contrast how the two interpretations represented the original play. did either of the interpretations make any changes to the original material? if so, how did it affect your experience as a viewer? did you interpret the characters any differently after watching the live productions? why or why not?

She has combed and brushed her night-dark hair, and bathed rose petal sweet, and drawn white gloves on her small brown hands, and white shoes on her feet. which literary technique does the stanza demonstrat

He leaned his head against the wall; his eyes were shut, his hands clasped in each other, and his body seemed to be sustained in an upright position merely by the cellar-door against which he rested his left shoulder. the lethargy into which he was sunk seemed scarcely interrupted by my feeling his hand and his forehead. his throbbing temples and burning skin indicated a fever . . there was only one circumstance that hindered me from forming an immediate determination in what manner this person should be treated. my family consisted of my wife and a young child. our servant-maid had been seized, three days before, by the reigning malady, and, at her own request, had been conveyed to the hospital. we ourselves enjoyed good health, and were hopeful of escaping with our lives. our measures for this end had been cautiously taken and carefully adhered to. they did not consist in avoiding the receptacles of infection, for my office required me to go daily into the midst of them; nor in filling the house with the exhalations of gunpowder, vinegar, or tar. they consisted in cleanliness, reasonable exercise, and wholesome diet. who is the story’s first-person narrator