1.The pilot compares his severe injury to finding a dead cat on the sofa.The simile reveals that the pilot's state of mind is unsteady,due to the fact that his thoughts are wandering.

2.The repetition of "I'm going to pass out"heightens the suspense of the story because it makes the readers question if the pilot is indeed going to pass out while conducting a plane.

3.From what I know of the historical context and background of the story,I think the pilot is afraid he will land in the water because his every thought is greatly influenced by the actuality that his country is at war.Thus,his life is constantly being threatened.

4.I think the pilot went to a hospital after he described the clouds and sun as whiteness and blackness because his descriptions of the place fits that of a hospital.For citation,he sees a white enamel basin and a small medicine glass.

5. Details in the second column help reveal the author's time period and background because 

 

3). at the end of pg.567 it could be summarized by eugene and elena becoming cool.

4). the first coloumn of pg.568 reflects the heritage as elena being spanish and is called a senorita because she is now 14 years old and they traveled back to puerto rico when there os a death in the family. the writer is angry because she beleives her mother is vigilant but she is happy to be friends with eugene and is dying to go into his house.

5). The Significance of mr.Depalma's behavior is that he is caring and he cares about the society his behavior says he is sentamental and gets anf=gry fasts in bad sititions

6). it is ironic because something historical happened president jfk dies and they were studying history.

1. What I  predict is the story is going to be a girl probable like a boy, and going to be a John F. Kennedy 

7. I think the attitude toward this is she really like this boy but, at the same time she found out that the president had been assassinated.

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the author's attitude towards discrimination and prejudice is revealed when Elena goes to Eugene's house and his mothers rejects her simply because she was puerto rican, she ends up as a heartbreak of a girl still unable to comprehend that it is all apart of life.

6. The reason why it was ironic is because, they might want to know why was he so important for everybody to cried and care so much, and also when he got assassinated she wanted to know why she was just very curious.

to summarize i would say that elena was happy and excited that she was to go over eugenes house.even though everyone was in shock cause the prez was just killed