Read the excerpt below and answer the question. the first tick-tockings of my small heart still alive in the chimney fittings and in the crannies of the old bricks and there still visible on the door and walls is that look of shame, my mother’s look at my father and my grandfather a choked voice murmured “it’s a girl” the midwife trembled unsure of her birthing fee and goodbye to the circumcision feast in at least one hundred words, discuss the tone of this excerpt from “birthplace,” and explain its significance in terms of the poem’s cultural context. what poetic devices to convey this tone?

Read the excerpt from ernest hemingway’s “soldier's home.” his father was in the real estate business and always wanted the car to be at his command when he required it to take clients out into the country to show them a piece of farm property. the car always stood outside the first national bank building where his father had an office on the second floor. now, after the war, it was still the same car. nothing was changed in the town except that the young girls had grown up. how does hemingway’s description of the town as unchanged impact the readers’ perception of krebs? it emphasizes that while the town has remained the same, krebs has changed. it illustrates that krebs despises the town he grew up in because it is boring. it demonstrates that krebs views himself as similar to the other soldiers from his town. it reveals that krebs is jealous of those who were able to stay in town and avoid the war.