Continuing improvements in medical technology have dramatically shortened the period of recovery from surgery and illness. Advances in surgical procedures and techniques have made many types of surgery less damaging to the body. New discoveries in drugs have made life-threatening diseases relatively controllable. As a result, hospital stays have become considerably shorter. For example, when a person had a heart attack 40 years ago, he or she had to stay in bed, in a hospital, for six weeks. More recently the hospital stay was still six weeks, but the patient was allowed out of bed at the end of three weeks. Studies now show that heart attack patients who have no setbacks in the first four days in the hospital can be safely discharged and sent home in less than two weeks, sometimes even in one week. Follow-ups have shown no serious complications or deaths six months after discharge.

i think the literacy device is "it's frozen head"

hmm, sadly there is no dialogue. there is no place in the story where he is talking to anyone. it's more of just describing what he eats and where he sleeps. you have to become anne frank, give details of where you are, what other folks look like, how the environment is. have a little bit of dialogue tell of what people are specifically saying. anne frank talked about her entire household including the people, the objects, the lighting, the food they ate, and even the smell in the air. there has to be more to your diary entries, the whole story in its current state is only about peter van daan, the food, the sounds, and where he sleeps. also he seems to be writing only once a year yet more than that happened from day to day. for a friend, i can you write it out, if you want.

the answer is "a" although apex might say best book of the year.

there is no passage showing on my screen