The Briefcase by Rebecca Makkai 1. In paragraph 5, who is to blame for what happens to the professor? How does the chef respond to this injustice?
2. In paragraph 17, it describes the chef’s habits of approaching and entering the post office. What do these habits reveal about the chef?
3. Overall, what are your thoughts about the main character and how the story ended?

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Which best explains this excerpt’s purpose in the novel’s plot structure? the excerpt creates conflict between characters as part of the rising action. the excerpt provides background information on a character as part of the exposition. the excerpt returns a character to equilibrium as part of the falling action. the excerpt is the point of greatest tension and acts as the climax.

It was fifteen minutes before i could work myself up to go and humble myself to a ; but i done it, and i warn’t ever sorry for it afterwards, neither. i didn’t do him no more mean tricks, and i wouldn’t done that one if i’d a knowed it would make him feel that way. in at least one hundred words, describe what central theme in the adventures of huckleberry finn emerges in this excerpt, and how its emergence relates to the social norms of the time.