What is one way the author's word choice contributes to the tone of this passage?
return home, and i realized that his coming home with likely taking miracle. i should have been thrilled. but it wasn't robert who returned from vietnam. he had become someone else. ghosts had followed him home and turned him into something he wasn't before. there was no fire in his eye, no warmth in his touch. just an angry, hollow shell that look like someone i used to know.

Which would be the most credible source for researching the effects of smoking? letter from your grandfather web page about someone’s lung cancer report prepared by a tobacco company research article in a scientific journal

When a monster in a story does not have the ability to communicate, what is the most likely result?

The story line remains the same. the kids live in what was then one of the remaining beachfront slums, down the coast from the expensive malibu area. the beach was ruled by surfers, but in the afternoon, when the waves died down, some of the surfers, or their younger brothers, fooled around on skateboards. one day, skip engblom, the shop owner, comes up with a key breakthrough, polyurethane wheels: "they grip." with the additional traction, the z-boys try skating the sides of the big, open drainage canal that runs through the area. then comes a brainstorm: because of a drought, the area's swimming pools were drained. the kids started "borrowing" pools when the owners weren't home, to skate the curved sides.” where did “the lords of dogtown” originally practice their tricks? a. the beach c. an open drainage canal b. empty pools d. none of these