Read the passage from “i know why the caged bird sings.” mrs. flowers had known that i would be embarrassed and that was even worse. i picked up the groceries and went out to wait in the hot sunshine. it would be fitting if i got a sunstroke and died before they came outside. just dropped dead on the slanting porch. there was a little path beside the rocky road, and mrs. flowers walked in front swinging her arms and picking her way over the stones. she said, without turning her head, to me, "i hear you're doing very good school work, marguerite, but that it's all written. the teachers report that they have trouble getting you to talk in class." we passed the triangular farm on our left and the path widened to allow us to walk together. i hung back in the separate unasked and unanswerable questions. "come and walk along with me, marguerite." i couldn't have refused even if i wanted to. although marguerite’s thoughts tell the reader directly that she was embarrassed, her actions let the reader infer that she was also . aangry bbored ceager drelaxed

Who are the antagonists in the story "ali baba and the 40 thieves", and are they're bad guys?

Javier is writing a literary analysis of the secret garden. read this introduction to his essay. frances burnett’s “the secret garden” explores the challenges of a sickly, self-centered little girl named mary lennox. after mary’s parents die of cholera, she moves from india to england to live at her uncle’s estate in yorkshire. while living at the old estate, mary discovers an abandoned garden that belonged to her deceased aunt. tending to the neglected garden brings mary joy, and her health improves. through mary’s transformation, burnett presents nature as a symbol of rebirth and healing. which piece of textual evidence should javier use to support the claim made in the introduction? a. “‘it’s in the garden no one can go into,’ she said to herself. ‘it’s the garden without a door. he lives in there. how i wish i could see what it is like! ’” b. “in india she had always felt hot and too languid to care much about anything. the fact was that the fresh wind from the moor had begun to blow the cobwebs out of her young brain and to waken her up a little.” c. “mary felt lonelier than ever when she knew she was no longer in the house. she went out into the garden as quickly as possible, and the first thing she did was to run round and round the fountain flower garden ten times.” d. “‘it isn’t a quite dead garden,’ she cried out softly to herself. ‘even if the roses are dead, there are other things alive.’”

Judy blume's career as an american writer spans four decades and includes many literary awards. she is most famous for her novels geared toward pre-teens. one notable example is tales of a fourth-grade nothing. however, blume also has had success writing for an adult audience. three of her novels for adults reached the new york times best-seller list. in a 2008 interview blume remarked, "i have so many stories left to tell! " by that time she had written nearly 30 novels. judy blume is an exceptionally talented and productive american author. which of the following statements supports the main idea in this paragraph? blume only publishes books that she expects will win awards. blume prefers to write novels for adults rather than pre-teens. blume has had an extremely and uncommonly long writing career. blume is a gifted writer who can write for children as well as adults.