The speaker's response to the brickmaker ("Much obliged,' I said, laughing, 'And you are the brickmaker of the Central Station. Every one knows that."")

implies that the speaker is- *

less than satisfied with the answer he received to his question

grateful that the man answered his query about Mr. Kurtz

angry that his question has not really been answered

amused by the man's irreverent response

not serious in seeking an answer to his own question

faulty parallelism is a grammar construction where there is no balance in the parts of a sentence they have a similar meaning but the grammar structure is not equivalent.

the correct version of this faulty parallelism in the sentence is:

jefferson wrote the declaration of independence, and he was the nation's third president.

the problem with the first version is that the sentence:

"jefferson was both the writer of the declaration of independence"

presents jefferson as both a subject and an agent for the verb "write" because if he was "the writer" then the declaration of independence was written by him, besides that fact, the sentence presents a dependent clause.

while the second sentence:

he was the nation's third president.

presents a basic subject+verb+object structure

so, to give a proper balance to the structure, or better said, to give a parallel structure, we must write a basic s+v+o structure in both sentences:

jefferson wrote the declaration of independence, and he was the nation third president.

c. to depict the cunningness of the federal soldiers

the answer is most likely c. it shows us that the rules that the pigs make can change on a whim whenever it suits the pigs purpose.

hope this