Read the excerpt from chapter 32 of the awakening. the pigeon house her. it at once assumed the intimate character of a home, while she herself invested it with a charm which it reflected like a warm glow. there was with her a feeling of having descended in the social scale, with a corresponding sense of having risen in the spiritual. every step which she took toward relieving herself from obligations added to her strength and expansion as an individual. she began to look with her own eyes; to see and to apprehend the deeper undercurrents of life. no longer was she content to "feed upon opinion" when her own soul had invited her. question: how does edna’s move into the pigeon house reflect her changing priorities? a. the move shows that she has come to value her relationship with her husband, because she hopes he will move there with her. b. the move shows that she is becoming more concerned with growing as a person than keeping up appearances. c. the move shows that she is becoming increasingly worried about upsetting her husband with her spending habits. d. the move shows that she is learning that societal values should come before her personal values.

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themes and meanings

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there are two central themes in  the miracle worker: that the human spirit can triumph over even the most daunting of disabilities and that a dedicated teacher can transform the lives of those with whom he or she comes into contact. these inspirational themes have long been personified in the widely known true-life relationship between helen keller and annie sullivan, but  the miracle worker  also dramatizes collateral issues that extend beyond the particular case. underlying helen’s process of learning basic principles of what annie terms “obedience” (decorum, etiquette, and hygiene), there are more universal lessons of self-governance—the inculcation of self-restraint instead of willfulness, the development of self-discipline instead of self-indulgence. only when these lessons have been mastered can helen begin to acquire language—which, annie says, “is to the mind more than light is to the eye.”