What is the purpose of the lines that are underlined?
Read this excerpt from "Herd about the Flu."
Herd about the Flu
It's winter and the flu is raging. It's in your school, you
know people who have caught it, and you are washing
your hands for the fifth time. Missing school because of flu
might not sound so bad, but the flu is one of the worst
viruses you can have. The chills, the fever, the severe
aches in your legs and arms ... It's not something you
want. Your mom drives you to the drugstore and you see
a sign: No Flu Shots Available.
Wait a minute—there is a bad flu this season. You need
the shot.
Where is the shot, and why can't you get it?
There are several answers to these questions. First, it just
may not be ready. Flu viruses change all of the time, so
new flu vaccines must be produced every year, and they
These are answers to topic questions, and the
paragraphs after them explain the answers.
These are summary points so that the reader could just
read these lines and understand the passage.
These are conclusions that summarize all of the
information in the paragraphs before them.
These are headings that give titles to the topics being
discussed in the paragraphs after them.

Read the excerpt from julius caesar, act 1, scene 1. marullus. wherefore rejoice? what conquest brings he home? what tributaries follow him to rome to grace in captive bonds his chariot wheels? you blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless35 things! o, you hard hearts, you cruel men of rome, knew you not pompey? many a time and oft have you climbed up to walls and battlements, to towers and windows, yea, to chimney-tops, your infants in your arms, and there have sat40 the livelong day, with patient expectation, to see great pompey pass the streets of rome. which summary of the passage is the best? marullus asks a lot of questions, such as, “why celebrate? what has caesar done? who is following him to rome? don’t you remember pompey? ” then he says that everyone is cruel because they do not remember pompey. they forget how they praised him and would climb to the highest places, carrying their children, just to catch a glimpse of him. marullus regrets that the people are celebrating caesar and is insulted that they forgot how they used to praise pompey. marullus thinks that the people should celebrate caesar the way they used to celebrate pompey, and that they should be in awe of caesar’s greatness. marullus remembers how the people climbed walls, battlements, towers, windows, and even chimney tops to see the great pompey.

Hillenbrand writes, "as louie blazed through college, far away, history was turning" (p. 43). why does the author interrupt louie's narrative with information about japan and germany?

Provide at least two quotes from the play romeo and juliet to show that the characters’ differences did or did not define them.