Read this excerpt from The Land.
What is the best reason why this excerpt is important to the
story?
Eventually there came the time on a late summer afternoon
just before my twelfth birthday when folks came to visit and
it was my mama, not my daddy, who ordered me to the
kitchen. Robert was now expected to stay at my daddy's
table, and no amount of protest on his part changed that
My mama set a lone plate for me on the sideboard in the
kitchen. That was truly the first time I felt unwanted in my
daddy's family. My daddy hadn't even bothered to tell me
himself not to sit at his table. He had left that to my mama,
and I resented not only him for it, but her too.
It develops the characterization of Paul's mother.
O It addresses the minor theme dealing with loneliness
O It provides specific details about the historical setting.
It addresses the major theme dealing with inequality

As you have learned, epic heroes experience trials along their journeys. using your knowledge from beowulf, create a trial you believe an epic hero like beowulf might face. you will need to write a description of the trial using the aspects of a narrative. the trial can be anything you imagine, meaning you can test the hero in any way you see fit. be creative and have fun with this! let your creativity flow. focus on key attributes of beowulf and use his attributes to create a trial that would truly test him. since beowulf is very strong, a trial involving strength and endurance might be to easy. try thinking outside the box to create a trial that would truly test the hero of the geats. examples of beowulf’s attributes: couragous, loyal, strong, persistant, honorable, confident try to use one or multiples of these attribute when designing your trial. a good way to think of this activity is that you are a hunger games game designer. what could you make that would stump beowulf

Me ! it's e2020! review the line from karin slaughter's npr interview."and with each page, that's what i try to do- is say something different about the character, something different in the reactions when they find these horrible things that are happening, or they figure out a piece of the puzzle."how does this view contract with lee child's central idea in "a simple way to create suspense"? a • child feels that the characters are not important to the plot. slaughter feels characters are central. b • child feels that characters must be unattractive and uninteresting. slaughter feels they must have reactions. c • slaughter builds suspense through her characters. child builds suspense by delaying answers. d • slaughter builds suspense by writing puzzles. child builds suspense by telling anecdotes.

In this example, what does the author use to describe laurie