Read the sentences from the "ellis island oral history project" excerpt.
oh, i, it was so beautiful to see her. ten years i didn't see her. i mean, she looked different, and i was so grown up. i was only eight years old when she left and then i was eighteen. i was young lady. well, i came and she was hugging me. we both cry.
what is the central idea of the sentences?
it is not easy to avoid those closest to us.
time does not affect one's overall appearance.
reunions awaken memories and emotions.
it is possible to remember childhood events.

Read the following passage: he roamed from chamber to chamber with hurried, unequal, and objectless step. the pallor of his countenance had assumed, if possible, a more ghastly hue— but the luminousness of his eye had utterly gone out. the once occasional huskiness of his tone was heard no more; and a tremulous quaver, as if of extreme terror, habitually characterized his utterance. there were times, indeed, when i thought his unceasingly agitated mind was laboring with some oppressive secret, to divulge which he struggled for the necessary courage. which of the above ideas might be considered foreshadowing? he is wandering all over the chamber his skin tone is really pale his voice is quivering the narrator thinks he is laboring with an oppressive secret