A creaking of the kind made by the weight carried by one foot after another along a wooden floor. I listened. I
felt the apertures of my ears distend with concentration. Again: the creaking. I was waiting for it, waiting to
hear if it indicated that feet were moving from room to room, coming up the passage-to my door. I have no
burglar bars, no gun under the pillow, but I have the same fears as people who do take these precautions,
and my windowpanes are thin as rime, could shatter like a wineglass. A woman was murdered (how do they
put it) in broad daylight in a house two blocks away, last year, and the fierce dogs who guarded an old
widower and his collection of antique clocks were strangled before he was knifed by a casual laborer he had
dismissed without pay
In this excerpt from "Once Upon a Time," how do the underlined lines create parallel structure?
They emphasize the reasons for gun control.
They emphasize the reasons for the narrator's fear.
They emphasize the danger in having antique collections.
They emphasize the need for community watch organizations.

i have read the novel roll of thunder hear my cry by mildred d. taylor.

1. this isn't like any other story i've read or watched because it is about a black family in mississippi right after slavery in the u.s. had become illegal. most of the novels i have read were about slavery. another point is that the author of the novel used symbolism in a way i haven't seen before. for example she uses thunder as something negative meaning something bad will happen. but by the end of the novel, she made thunder a good thing.

2.   one character that changed during the novel was stacey. stacey is the eldest child of the black logan family. around the begging of the novel stacey was avoiding the white boy jeremy simms. he had a dislike for jeremy's family. but at the end of the novel stacey began to like jeremy.

3. the author starts the novel with the problem that the children of the logan family have to avoid the white kid school bus while walking to school.

heritage? culture? religion? gene? trait?

the answer is camped

the rocket launch by showing how the population around it changes its behavior as the earth's influence over the martian planet when he uses the term "green star".

explanation: