When he was young, howard hughes seemed larger than life. he was once called "a second lindbergh" because of all
the records he broke as a pilot. he owned and ran dozens of businesses in every field, from building airplanes to making
medicine.
in his later years, hughes became a recluse. obsessed by worries about germs and illness, he turned into a lonely
hypochondriac. one doctor described hughes in his final days as being like a neglected prisoner of war. in the end,
hughes died of heart failure as he was being flown to a hospital.
what is the best possible explanation for why the author does not explain what causes hughes to become so
strange?
a. it would have made the text less interesting.
b. the information is confidential.
c. the information was not available.
d. howard hughes asked him not to.

the anwser is went creeping down the river again, across the wide lonely marshes to the sea.

i longed to go with them out into the world to seek my fortune in foreign lands—africa, india, china and peru!

and, dreaming of the lands i had never seen, i'd sit on there, watching till they were out of sight.

there is no excerpt.

put the excerpt in the comments and ill answer.

the correct answer is a "it describes nora and mrs. linde's relationship". opcions b and d are not related to the content of the passage in any way. option c could be appropiate but it does not fully capture the effect of the dialogue, while option a is quite appropiate, since the dialogue not only exemplifies the relationship between the characters, but it also captures the effect in the excerpt. we get to know that mrs linde bosses around and already knows nora.

in the story "marionettes inc," in the last line of the story, braling two is referred to by the narrator as the "someone." what does this new identifier imply and how does it add to the drama of the closing scene?