Read this excerpt from the grapes of wrath: the driver munched the branded pie and threw the crust away. "times are changed, don't you know? thinking about stuff like that don't feed the kids. get your three dollars a day, feed your kids. you got no call to worry about anybody's kids but your own. you get a reputation for talking like that, and you'll never get three dollars a day."which word best describes the tone of this excerpt? a. disgustedb. enthusiasticc. amusedd. sympathetic

The correct answer and the word that best describes the tone of this excerpt from John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath" (1939) is A. Disgusted.

This excerpt belongs to chapter 5 of "The Grapes of Wrath", in which banks and landowners decide to evict farmers from their lands because they cannot make high profits from that farming model. The sentence "times are changed" points to this fact. Tractors arrive to the farmlands to evict the farmers and plow the land, razing the farmhouse if necessary. The farmers protested against it and against the people driving the tractors, usually their own neighbors. The driver is disgusted with the situation because they are also facing problems and cannot think about other families. Their own families are starving and the bank pays three dollars a day for this job, so while they are disgusted, they have to take care of their own kids.

b. cronkite, a trusted television personality, declared that the war was unwinnable and told the american people that the government had better find a way out

even though it went against everything the news anchors typically stood for, cronkite voiced an opinion and took a stance, telling the us that there was no way they were going to win, the war was going to end in a stalemate.