Which statement best describes and explains the characters' actions? Hans and his mother put a lamp in front of the window to make themselves feel better. Ma said with other blast aside and set need ew that the edge of the el better. Hans and his mother are shaken by another blast of the blizzard that hits their house. O Hans and his mother know that his father is trying to find his way home in the blizzard. O Hans and his mother are trapped inside the house during the blizzard without his father.

"and these i address to all females that would be married, or are already so; not that i suppose their sex more faulty than the other, and most to want advice, for i assure [women], upon my honour, i believe the quite contrary; but the reason is, because i esteem them better disposed to receive and practice it, and therefore am willing to begin, where i may promise myself the best success." this statement from franklin's "rules and maxims for promoting matrimonial happiness" best demonstrates his use of criticism to argue his point his use of common sense to appeal to women his use of flattery to gain women's attention his use of facts to prove his point

In robert fosters birches what does the speaker think of when he sees birches bend left and right

"the only completely stationary object in the room was an enormous couch on which two young women were buoyed up as though upon an anchored balloon. they were both in white and their dresses were rippling and fluttering as if they had just been blown back in after a short flight around the house."