A story about a family trying to stick together and survive through the great depression in the midwest in the 1930s what is the authors purpose

When i was young enough to still spend a long time buttoning my shoes in the morning, i'd listen toward the hall: daddy upstairs was shaving, in the bathroom, and mother downstairs was frying the bacon. they would begin whispering back and forth to each other up and down the stairwell. my father would whistle his phrase, my mother would try to whistle, then hum hers backi drew my buttonhook in and out and listened to it -know it was "the merry widow." the difference was, their song almost floated with laughter. how different from the record, which growled from the beginning, as if the victrola were only slowly being wound up. they kept it running between them, up and down the stairs where i was now just about ready to run clattering down and show them my shoes. what is the effect of the parallelism used in the above excerpt? it establishes the rhythm of a duet to echo the song. it expresses the same ideas. it mirrors opposite ideas. it is a paradox.

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Which detail from "the city without us" most clearly shows us that nature is more powerful than it appears this is for apex 2019 a.the great size of the trees that grow in the new york botonical garden b.the worthlessness of the money left in the bank vaults that remain intact c.the hurricanes that frequently pummel us soil coastal cities d. the size of the japanese insect that can kill hemlock trees