In "the grasshopper and the bell cricket," the singing of the insects represents the approach of autumn. this contributes to the mood of the story by associating beauty with a. sadness. b. excitement. c. hearing. d. innocence.

the answer is B. excitement.

autobiography of an ex-colored man is told from the first-person point of view of an unnamed male narrator. he starts his tale by stating that he is going to reveal the great secret of his life. he first takes the reader to his childhood in georgia where he was raised by a single mother. he was dissapointed in his own color.

c is a symbol. when bernice gets her hair cut, it is the authors way of showing the affects and demands of pier pressure and the over-all attitudes of people at the time.