What element in a story can be in understanding the story's theme

Read the excerpt from flannery o'connor's "the life you save may be your own although the old woman lived in this desolate spot with only her daughter and she had never seen mr. shiftlet before, she could tell, even from a distance, that he was a tramp and no one to be afraid of. his left coat sleeve was folded up to show there was only half an arm in it and his gaunt figure listed slightly. which phrase connects these characters to the southern gothic genre? half an arm she had never seen his left coat sleeve folded up

In the myth of demeter persephone and hades what happens when demeter learns that her daughter has been kidnapped

Which statements about the controlling idea of a text are true? check all that apply.