1.Read the passage below from "The First Day of School" by R.V. Cassill. Then, answer the question below. Your answer should be at least three sentences.
Uncertainly he relaxed his grip. “How do you know all
that?”
“I listen,” she said. Her eyes lit with a sudden spark that
seemed to come from their absolute brown depths. “But I
don’t let on all I know the way you do. I’m not a . . .” Her last
word sunk so low that he could not exactly hear it. But if his
ear missed it, his understanding caught it. He knew she had
said “coward.”
He let her get up then. She was standing beside him,
serene and prim when their mother came out on the
porch again.
“Here, child,” their mother said to Audrey, counting the
dollar bills into her hand. “There’s six, and I guess it will be all
right if you have some left if you and Brother get yourselves a
cone to lick on the way home.”
John was not looking at his sister then. He was already
turning to face the shadowless street, but he heard the
unmistakable poised amusement of her voice when she said,
“Ma, don’t you know we’re a little too old for that?”
“Yes, you are,” their mother said. “Seems I had
forgotten that.”
1. Before this point, John seemed the dominant, decision-making sibling, while Audrey remained quiet. Analyze the changes that occur in the text above and tell what they reveal about the characters. What are the new roles? How have the roles and siblings changed?
