Read this passage from "The Rockpile." Why does Elizabeth look at Roy as she is talking to the boys?

"You children stay away from there, you hear me?" Though she sald "children" she was looking
at Roy, where he sat beside John on the fire escape. "The good Lord knows," she continued, "I
don't want you to come home bleeding like a hog every day the Lord sends."

A. john has already promised to never go to the rock pile, but roy has not

B. Roy is hard of hearing, but john is not

C. Roy is more likely to sneak off and go to the rock pile and play than john is

D. Elizabeth cares more about Roy than she does about John

he believed if we do not fight back the britins would be in every household

first of all the mood needs to be defined: it is obviously a mood of deceitful relief and serenity. why? because the cape horn is one of the most violent maritime regions of earth and although it has been left behind, it is a personification of ahab’s delirium and the fact that the end of the passage speaks about it about being “hidden” but “raving” immediately conveys the feeling the calm is not permanent but fleeting.

furthermore, the oxymoron “mild stun'sails” is the first instance of such feeling as the adjective “mild” is associated with “stunned” underscoring the fleeting nature of this “tranquil” moment. and the contrasts keep piling up, with the opposition between “dark den” and “blessed light and air” to end with the final conclusion that leaves the reader with the uneasy knowledge that this is just a reprieve.