Read this passage from Through the Looking-Glass. By this time it was getting light. "The crow must have flown away, I think,” said Alice: "I'm so glad it's gone. I thought it was the night coming on.”

"I wish I could manage to be glad!” the Queen said. "Only I never can remember the rule. You must be very happy, living in this wood, and being glad whenever you like!”

"Only it is so VERY lonely here!” Alice said in a melancholy voice; and at the thought of her loneliness two large tears came rolling down her cheeks.

"Oh, don't go on like that!” cried the poor Queen, wringing her hands in despair.

Which word best describes the tone of this passage?

upbeat
downcast
inspiring
humorous

I would say downcast. Because there is a sad tone to it.

downcast

Explanation:

because she talks about how lonely it is

i have read the novel roll of thunder hear my cry by mildred d. taylor.

1. this isn't like any other story i've read or watched because it is about a black family in mississippi right after slavery in the u.s. had become illegal. most of the novels i have read were about slavery. another point is that the author of the novel used symbolism in a way i haven't seen before. for example she uses thunder as something negative meaning something bad will happen. but by the end of the novel, she made thunder a good thing.

2.   one character that changed during the novel was stacey. stacey is the eldest child of the black logan family. around the begging of the novel stacey was avoiding the white boy jeremy simms. he had a dislike for jeremy's family. but at the end of the novel stacey began to like jeremy.

3. the author starts the novel with the problem that the children of the logan family have to avoid the white kid school bus while walking to school.

b is the correct answer