PLSSS HELP I WILL GIVE U ALL MY POINTS Read the excerpt from chapter 16 of The Secret Garden. Something he had heard Mrs. Medlock whispering to the nurse had given him the idea and he had thought over it in secret until it was quite firmly fixed in his mind. Mrs. Medlock had said his father’s back had begun to show its crookedness in that way when he was a child. He had never told anyone but Mary that most of his “tantrums” as they called them grew out of his hysterical hidden fear.

How does this excerpt contribute to the development of the plot?

It implies that Colin and his father will face similar conflicts.

It foreshadows the actions that Colin will take in the future.

It gives background information that explains Colin's behavior.

It provides a flashback describing Colin's conflict with his father.

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She took up a scalpel and slit the monkey's abdomen, making a slow and gentle cut, keeping the blade well away from her gloved fingers. the spleen was puffed up and tough, leathery, like a globe of smoked salami. she did not see any bloody lesions inside this monkey. she had expected that the monkey's interior would be a lake of blood, but no, this monkey looked all right, it had not bled into itself. if the animal had died of ebola, this was not a clear case. she opened up the intestine. there was no blood inside it. the gut looked okay. then she examined the stomach. there she found a ring of bleeding spots at the junction between the stomach and the small intestine. this could be a sign of ebola, but it was not a clear sign. it could also be a sign of simian fever, not ebola. therefore, she could not confirm the presence of ebola virus in this animal based on a visual inspection of the internal organs during necropsy.

The women are often described through stage directions rather than through dialogue. how does this reinforce the role of women in glaspell’s time? how does it go against the role of women?