A dog from that house will make me angry enough to take a stand

Read the following excerpt from life on the mississippi by mark twain. no girl could withstand his charms. he "cut out" every boy in the village. when his boat blew up at last, it diffused a tranquil contentment among us such as we had not known for months. but when he came home the next week, alive, renowned, and appeared in church all battered up and bandaged, a shining hero, stared at and wondered over by everybody, it seemed to us that the partiality of providence for an undeserving reptile had reached a point where it was open to criticism. how does twain's use of understatement serve his purpose? be sure to use specific details from the text to support your answer.

How does douglass contrast his childhood on colonel lloyd’s plantation with this arrival on baltimore at the auld’s?

Based on what you have read, write two or three sentences explaining what the point of view in the memoir allows readers to learn about helen keller.