4. Sally is punished very harshly for talking to boys. How does this give more proof to the way women are treated in the novel? the house on mango street ​

gregor could have been bullying her

the underlined phrase is an example of : understatment

even though there may be variations in human emotions over time, the poem “ a contribution to statistics” by wislawa symborska suggests that the only unchangeable characteristic is mortality.

the author poses a distinction between the approximate and non-approximate numbers which correspond to our need for certainty in life and the difficulty of achieving it. our efforts to measure the exact often fail because the world is not always clearly structured .the poem seems to imply   that the only thing that is certain and has an exact number is death.