He looked in the backyard. there was the canoe. it called to him, floating and ready. it was a rare opportunity, he thought, to be able to glide over the roads. . leaving the yard was difficult. a tree across the street had been ripped from its roots and lay across the road, branches spread over his driveway. he paddled around them and looked back to the house. no great damage to the exterior. some shingles missing from the roof. the windows broken. a gutter that would need remounting. nothing too bad, three days’ work. what conclusion can readers draw about this character vs. nature conflict? nature exerts her power and control over zeitoun. nature offers protection to zeitoun’s family. zeitoun believes he can manage nature’s strength. zeitoun feels overwhelmed by nature’s power.

Read the excerpt from twelfth night, by william shakespeare. if music be the food of love, play on; give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, the appetite may sicken, and so die. that strain again! it had a dying fall: o, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound, that breathes upon a bank of violets, stealing and giving odour! now read the excerpt from "the love song of j. alfred prufrock." for i have known them all already, known them all: have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, i have measured out my life with coffee spoons; i know the voices dying with a dying fall beneath the music from a farther room. what does the phrase “dying fall” most likely mean in both excerpts? the noise is jarring. the noise is soothing. the sounds are fading. the sounds are too loud. mark this and return

Brendan is playing in the backyard.

How does this excerpt develop the central idea that espionage during the civil war was often carried out by untrained citizens? it enhances the reader’s understanding by explaining why training was unnecessary. it changes the reader’s perception of what information a spy was able to obtain. it explains an ordinary person’s motivation for conducting espionage against the enemy. it adds moral complexity to espionage, due to the use of secret and dangerous methods.