Charlie ends his April 14 (progress report 9) entry about Robinson Crusoe with the word "Why". How does this word show that his thinking has changed?
He has become "smarter", but is still confused by a great deal of what he encounters in the world
He has developed a desire to become a writer of fiction
He is curious about literature and the world in general in a way he previously was not
He has become interested in adventure and travel

When i was young enough to still spend a long time buttoning my shoes in the morning, i'd listen toward the hall: daddy upstairs was shaving, in the bathroom, and mother downstairs was frying the bacon. they would begin whispering back and forth to each other up and down the stairwell. my father would whistle his phrase, my mother would try to whistle, then hum hers backi drew my buttonhook in and out and listened to it -know it was "the merry widow." the difference was, their song almost floated with laughter. how different from the record, which growled from the beginning, as if the victrola were only slowly being wound up. they kept it running between them, up and down the stairs where i was now just about ready to run clattering down and show them my shoes. what is the effect of the parallelism used in the above excerpt? it establishes the rhythm of a duet to echo the song. it expresses the same ideas. it mirrors opposite ideas. it is a paradox.