Read the excerpt from act 3 of a doll's house. helmer: how unreasonable and how ungrateful you are, nora! have you not been happy here? nora: no, i have never been happy. i thought i was, but it has never really been so. helmer: not—not happy! nora: no, only merry. and you have always been so kind to me. but our home has been nothing but a playroom. i have been your doll-wife, just as at home i was papa's doll-child; and here the children have been my dolls. i thought it great fun when you played with me, just as they thought it great fun when i played with them. that is what our marriage has been, torvald. what prediction does the text best support? helmer is going to change how he treats nora. helmer is going to leave nora and the children. nora is going to leave helmer and the children. nora is going to tell helmer to treat her better.

Read the excerpts from part 3 of "an occurrence at owl creek bridge." a rising sheet of water curved over him, fell down upon him, blinded him, strangled him! the cannon had taken a hand in the game. as he shook his head free from the commotion of the smitten water he heard the deflected shot humming through the air ahead, and in an instant it was cracking and smashing the branches in the forest beyond. *** a whiz and rattle of grapeshot among the branches high above his head roused him from his dream. the baffled cannoneer had fired him a random farewell. he sprang to his feet, rushed up the sloping bank, and plunged into the forest. *** as he is about to clasp her he feels a stunning blow upon the back of the neck; a blinding white light blazes all about him with a sound like the shock of a cannon—then all is darkness and silence! what function does the motif of the cannon serve throughout the story? the cannon continually pushes farquhar to continue his journey through his dream and back to reality. the cannon encourages farquhar to investigate whether his escape was a dream or reality. the cannon reminds farquhar that time is subjective and encourages him to move quickly in order to reach his home. the cannon represents farquhar’s romantic dream that he escaped his execution and will return home.