I’m going to try to give this to you via comment section because it includes too many words.
(Now, this is something I pulled off the web. You could turn this in, but I don’t recommend that. Just read over this instead of the actual book if you don’t have enough time, and rewrite some of it in your own words, or rewrite it all yourself based on this.)
Answer: D it connected farms in the west to the ports in the east improving trade
Explanation: I took the test
Answer:
The sting that followed upon the striking of his fingers against his leg ceased so quickly that he was startled
Explanation:
The sentence in the excerpt that demonstrates a blunt portrayal of natural life is The sting that followed upon the striking of his fingers against his leg ceased so quickly that he was startled.
This shows that nature is indifferent to the suffering of humans. Nature tries to numb the man's fingers while he was about having a meal and despite the man's best efforts at gaining sensation to his fingers by striking his finger on his legs, it was useless because nature was unrelenting and indifferent to his suffering.
It is C the holocaust it is written about his father in the holocaust