Making change in government

In at least one hundred words, discuss how the man with the umbrella in sorrentino’s “there’s a man in the habit of hitting me on the head with an umbrella” is an example of an extended metaphor and what central theme he conveys.

Alvarez instruction active understanding characters what can you conclude about the daughters, based on the passage? check all that apply. her daughters would seek her out at night when she seemed to have a moment to talk to them: they were having trouble at school or they wanted her to persuade their father to give them permission to go into the city or to a shopping mall or a movie - in broad daylight, mami! laura would wave them out of her room. "the problem with you " the problem boiled down to the fact that they wanted to become americans and their father and their mother, too, at first - would have none of it. -“daughter of invention," julia alvarez they struggle to fit in. they feel supported by their mother. they value their mother's advice. they embrace american culture. they want to leave new york

Which phrase from "the pedestrian" convey bradbury's message that a tv-obsessed world is a place where people are disconnected from one another and reality? o a. the headlights of the police car made leonard mead feel like a museum specimen, needle thrust through chest." o b. leonard mead noticed that the cold air "cut the nose and made the lungs blaze like a christmas tree inside." o c. leonard mead "listened to the faint push of his soft shoes through autumn leaves with satisfaction." o d. people who watched tv felt "the gray or multicolored lights touching their faces, but never really touching them."