Read this excerpt from the diary of anne frank
"mr. kraler is in the hospital. it seems he has ulcers. pim says we are his ulcers."
who is the speaker in this excerpt?
anne
margot
miep geis
mrs. frank

The speaker in this excerpt is Anne.  

Explanation:

Anne Frank refers to Mr. Kraler, a business partner of her father (Mr. Frank), who helped her family by providing them a hiding place and keeping them safe from Nazis.

At that time, people used to think that ulcers were caused by stress, so Anne Frank uses this excerpt as a metaphor to explain how hard and stressful it was for Mr. Kraler to help her family (the Franks) and other people hide in the annex.

answer: b. grete might have remained as shy and immature as she was at the beginning of the story.

one of the most interesting characteristics of gregor's metamorphosis is that, although he is the only character who has physically changed, it is this same change which triggered a transformation in the rest of his family.

by taking care of gregor, grete has become stronger and more confident. she has found a life outside of the house, and has become more independent and self-sufficient. the novel implies that the trigger for the change is gregor's own transformation, and that without it, grete was likely to remain as shy and immature as she was at the beginning of the book.

explanation:

d) the narrator even suggested that the white whale, moby d, was ubiquitous and present in every ocean at every moment.