HELP ASAPPP Read the passage from The Phantom Tollbooth.
"Oh no," said Milo seriously. "In my family we all start on the
ground and grow up, and we never know how far until we
actually get there."
"What a silly system." The boy laughed. "Then your head
keeps changing its height and you always see things in a
different way? Why, when you're fifteen things won't look at
all the way they did when you were ten, and at twenty
everything will change again."
How does Alec believe that "growing down" instead of
"growing up" affects a person's perspective?
It helps a person to choose his or her perspective.
It helps a person keep his or her perspective the same.
It makes a person keep changing his or her perspective.
It makes a person confused about his or her perspective.

the positive connotations of the words "pretty," "quiet," and "silence" give the excerpt a tone of nervousness. i think its this

earthquake is the answer i remember doing this last year

the scene now shifts back to the shelby plantation in kentucky, where  aunt chloe  has just received the letter tom wrote her with little eva's . mrs. shelby tells her husband about the letter, in which tom says that although his new family is kind, he still longs to return to his "real home."

mr. shelby, in the meantime, has still been plagued by debt. mrs. shelby offers to raise money, especially so that they can buy tom. mr. shelby becomes angry, and his wife lets the unlikely hope drop for the present. chloe then calls for mrs. shelby and asks if she could be hired out as a pastry cook in louisville in order to earn money for tom. mrs. shelby gives chloe her blessing.