Why will Billie Jo and her dad be eating alone this year?

Billie Jo and her father will be eating alone this year because her mother and baby brother had died.

Explanation:

Karen Hesse's "Out of the Dust," tells the story of and narrated by the protagonist Billie Jo Kelby and her family's life during the Great Depression. The struggle amidst the poverty, the misfortune of the fire incident, and the desire for escape led Billie Jo to run away, but only to return home after she realized a newfound admiration and love for her distant and grieving father.

An incident at the house where her mother mistakenly used kerosene (thinking it was water) to make coffee for her husband led not only to her death but also kills the newborn baby. And because of this, Billie Jo and her father are left alone in the house, grieving but unable to do anything about it.  

which of the following was specifically permitted by the emancipation proclamation?

free african americans were allowed to fight for the confederacy.

free african americans were allowed to enlist in the union army and navy.

enslaved people in border states were allowed to move to the north.

enslaved people in border states were allowed to become confederate citizens. gfrt   jytku6 wqte t5r

answer: from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation under god shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people

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