Dave slammed the door angrily and stormed out to his car. another argument with his boss over vacation time. how could they expect him to meet every deadline, pull in a dozen new clients a year, and yet not give him the vacation time he had earned? on the drive home he got more and more angry about it. when he walked through the door, his daughters kimmy and little meg were waiting eagerly at the front door. “are you ready daddy? we can’t wait to leave tomorrow! ” before he knew what he was saying, he shouted angrily “no! i’m not ready! and we’re not going! you kids take everything for granted; well, this time you’re just going to have to deal with disappointment like the rest of us! ” the little girls fell to pieces crying, while their mother looked at dave in disbelief. 20 what lesson does this story imply? a. children should be seen and not heard. b. disappointment is difficult to deal with. c. you should be careful what you say to people when you are angry. d. parents and children often disagree.

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