Read this excerpt from the last paragraph of the passage. All my confidence in that crossing vanished. I seized the bell- rope, dropped it, ashamed; seized it again; dropped it once more; clutched it tremblingly once again, and pulled it so feebly that I could hardly hear the stroke myself. What is the effect of the choice to repeat the word dropped?
A. It reveals the narrator is nervous and fumbling.
B. It hints that the narrator wants to appear relatable.
C. It gives the sentence an eerie ominous mood
D. It makes the tone of the sentence nformal

ich statement best shows a problem in travels with charley?

one sharp difficulty presented itself. in the intervening twenty-five years my name had become reasonably well known.

this being so, my trip demanded that i leave my name and my identity at home.

i had to go alone and i had to be self-contained, a kind of casual turtle carrying his house on his back.

with all this in mind i wrote to the head office of a great corporation which manufactures trucks.

c is a symbol. when bernice gets her hair cut, it is the authors way of showing the affects and demands of pier pressure and the over-all attitudes of people at the time.

what are the statements?