Iwent meekly aboard a few of the boats that lay packed together like sardines at the long st. louis wharf, and humbly inquired for the pilots, but got only a cold shoulder and short words from mates and clerks.
how does twain use an idiom in this excerpt?
a. to compare two unlike things, boats and sardines, by using the word like
b. to describe the way that the mates and clerks tapped twain on the shoulder
c. to show a contrast between twain's expectation and the reality of the situation
d. to show how twain was deliberately made to feel unwelcome

Ineed advice. i have a lot of friends at school but recently my best friend for some reason didn’t like our friend group. she wanted to switch to a new table during lunch. she said she found a new table where we would be welcomed if i wanted to come. i agreed because i knew i would continue to talk to them outside of lunch. after a month or two, my best friend got mad at our new lunch table group. so she left for a day or two, but i stayed because i actually kinda liked it there, even if it was kinda crazy. then she came back to the table. eventually i started to miss my old friends at my old lunch table. so i went over there for one lunch. then after lunch i sat at my new lunch spot before the bell rang. they all called me a traitor. so now i sit with my old lunch group, which is fine because i missed them, but i also miss my new, now old, lunch table. what should i do? p.s. sorry if you loose your last brain cells trying to understand this.

How could an audio recording most likely convey the characters emotions during the scene

Fill in the blank: modernism can be seen in movies with (choose the best answer a. a technological and scientific view b. a fantasy type twist c. an anti-consumerism slant d. a realistic and non-imaginative slant