Is anyone down to talk

What do we know about the mother in “two kinds”? select all that apply. she came from china. she had two daughters who died. her mother, father, and first husband are dead. she is part japanese.

"such has been the patient suffrence of these colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to after their former systems of government. the history of the present king of great britain is a history of reapeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishedment of an absolute tyranny over these states." which statement best describes the excerpt

What aspects of a story the reader understand the authors purpose