Read the following short passage. it was because she had broken with billy that loretta had come visiting to santa clara. billy could not understand. his sister had reported that he had walked the floor and cried all night. loretta had not slept all night either, while she had wept most of the night. daisy knew this, because it was in her arms that the weeping had been done. and daisy's husband, captain kitt, knew, too. the tears of loretta, and the comforting by daisy, had lost him some sleep. now captain kitt did not like to lose sleep. neither did he want loretta to marry billy—nor anybody else. it was captain kitt's belief that daisy needed the of her younger sister in the household. but he did not say this aloud. instead, he always insisted that loretta was too young to think of marriage. so it was captain kitt's idea that loretta should be packed off on a visit to mrs. hemingway. there wouldn't be any billy there. which point of view is used in this excerpt? objective limited omniscient omniscient first person

Ead the passage from "marriage is a private affair” by chinua achebe. "i shall never see her,” was the reply. from that night the father scarcely spoke to his son. he did not, however, cease hoping that he would realize how serious was the danger he was heading for. day and night he put him in his prayers. nnaemeka, for his own part, was very deeply affected by his father’s grief. but he kept hoping that it would pass away. if it had occurred to him that never in the history of his people had a man married a woman who spoke a different tongue, he might have been less optimistic. "it has never been heard,” was the verdict of an old man speaking a few weeks later. in that short sentence he spoke for all of his people. this man had come with others to commiserate with okeke when news went round about his son’s behaviour. by that time the son had gone back to lagos. "it has never been heard,” said the old man again with a sad shake of his head. "what did our lord say? ” asked another gentleman. "sons shall rise against their fathers; it is there in the holy book.” "it is the beginning of the end,” said another. how does this passage reinforce the traditional social hierarchy? the older men in the village tell okeke that he should respect nnaemeka’s decision. the older men in the village console nnaemeka about okeke’s attitude toward his choices. the older men in the village commiserate with okeke regarding nnaemeka’s decision to disobey him. the older men in the village think that nnaemeka should be optimistic that okeke will accept his decision.

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[he] let his gaze wander to the swirling water of the stream racing madly beneath his feet. a piece of dancing driftwood caught his attention and his eyes followed it down the current. how slowly it appeared to move! what a sluggish stream! what contrasting words are used to describe the stream in this passage?