Near the end of the chapter 16, Lyddie isn’t feeling well, and Mr. Mardsen asks her to wait when the others leave. “Let me go! She wanted to cry. She tried to pull back from him, but he clutched tighter….she raised her booted foot and stomped her heel down with all her might”\ What can you infer Mr. Marsden is trying to do? What do his actions suggest about his character?

When you see information in brackets, these are dialogue stage directions setting actor names

How does the author use the character of the nurse to develop the social issue of gender inequality? the nurse’s willingness to take care of nora when nora was little demonstrates a woman’s ability to do difficult work. the nurse’s need to give up a child in order to have a job demonstrates a woman’s inability to support herself. the fact that the nurse’s child wrote to her as a young girl and as an adult demonstrates a woman’s ability to keep friends forever. the nurse’s assurance to nora that her children ask for her often demonstrates women’s role in health care.

Which piece of textual evidence from the short story "civil peace" by chinua achebe can be used to defend the claim thatviolence has not ended despite the end of war?