Read the passage from "The Quinceanera.” So there I was at the jewelry counter in Ferguson’s department store, surrounded by stroller-driving moms and crying babies. I had to hurry. Maritza’s party was tonight and, more importantly, I was meeting my friends at the movies at 1:00. It would be the only part of the day I would actually get to enjoy, and I was really looking forward to it.

Which phrase from the passage most helps to create the mood?

The phrase “stroller-driving moms and crying babies” helps create the irritated mood.
The phrase “Maritza’s party was tonight” helps create the anticipatory mood.
The phrase “I was meeting my friends at the movies” helps create the playful mood.
The phrase “was really looking forward to it” helps create the excited mood.

Compare and contrast author charlotte brontë with her heroine jane eyre. how did bronte’s life experiences influence the development of jane? what aspects of brontë herself do we see in jane? your answer should be at least one hundred words.

In 250-300 words, discuss jem’s character development in to kill a mockingbird. how does he grow and change? what are the major events that affect that change?

Read this excerpt from "a visit from the goon squad."that’s when he began singing the songs he’d been writing for years underground, songs no one had ever heard, or anything like them—“eyes in my head,” “x’s and o’s,” “who’s watching hardest”—ballads of paranoia and disconnection ripped from the chest of a man you knew just by looking had never had a page or a profile or a handle or a handset, who was part of no one’s data, a guy who had lived in the cracks all these years, forgotten and full of rage, in a way that now registered as pure. untouched.how does the author use satire in this excerpt? the author is criticizing media censorship.the author is criticizing the idea of isolationism.the author is mocking society’s overuse of technology.the author is mocking man’s inability to freely express himself.