Read this sentence from chapter one of jack london’s the call of the wild.

the judge was at a meeting of the raisin growers' association, and the boys were busy organizing an athletic club, on the memorable night of manuel's treachery.

what is a good prediction question to ask after reading this sentence?

a. when does the judge attend community meetings?
b. do the boys work closely with manuel on the farm?
c. what does manuel do to buck while the family is away?
d. how does manuel know the family’s busy schedule?

Mr and mrs van daan murmur their welcome what are the playwrights indicating by using the word murmur?

He leaned his head against the wall; his eyes were shut, his hands clasped in each other, and his body seemed to be sustained in an upright position merely by the cellar-door against which he rested his left shoulder. the lethargy into which he was sunk seemed scarcely interrupted by my feeling his hand and his forehead. his throbbing temples and burning skin indicated a fever . . there was only one circumstance that hindered me from forming an immediate determination in what manner this person should be treated. my family consisted of my wife and a young child. our servant-maid had been seized, three days before, by the reigning malady, and, at her own request, had been conveyed to the hospital. we ourselves enjoyed good health, and were hopeful of escaping with our lives. our measures for this end had been cautiously taken and carefully adhered to. they did not consist in avoiding the receptacles of infection, for my office required me to go daily into the midst of them; nor in filling the house with the exhalations of gunpowder, vinegar, or tar. they consisted in cleanliness, reasonable exercise, and wholesome diet. who is the story’s first-person narrator

  which statement describes the main argument of truth’s speech