In the early twentieth century, parents' worries about their kids and money began to grow. Movies, magazines, and candy were becoming widely available. Kids were asking their parents to buy more and more. Parents needed a way to show their kids the value of a dollar. Parents also wanted to help kids distinguish wise purchases from foolish ones. Giving each kid an allowance became popular. An allowance is a set amount of money kids receive each week or each month. Kids could spend the money or save it. Along the way, kids' choices would bring both rewards and consequences. Do It! Parents hoped to teach children about .

in at least 150 words, discuss the tone of the narrator in "i stand here ironing," and explain how it impacts the telling of the story

a question like this requires the excerpt to be included in order to answer the question.

word count 168

serve the people! ,” smoothly translated by julia lovell, offers an initial sample of yan lianke’s writing to an english-speaking audience. a bluntly drawn, mildly erotic fable, it teases mao zedong by poking fun at a true believer who obeys the chairman’s precepts too literally. to a western sensibility, the broad strokes of yan lianke’s humor would seem to pose little risk of inciting rebellion, whether of the flesh or of the body politic. but then, part of the book’s attraction is that it doesn’t have a western sensibility. it lets the reader see — or rather, intuit — what jokes chinese officials don’t consider funny, and how very little it takes for a writer to be branded an incendiary in 21st-century china, more than three decades after the death of mao, a decade after the death of deng xiaoping and seven years since china entered the world trade organization, a move that would seem to signal a willingness (however wary) to mingle with the rest of the world.

what are the main ideas?