Which excerpt from "the gift of the magi" presents the reader with the initial conflict of the story?

there was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.

tomorrow would be christmas day, and she had only $1.87 with which to buy jim a present.

she had a way of saying a little silent prayer about the simplest everyday things, and now she whispered: " god, make
think i am still pretty."

twenty dollars a week doesn't go far.

From “the raven” by edgar allan poe but the raven, sitting lonely on the placid bust, spoke only that one word, as if his soul in that one word he did outpour. nothing farther then he uttered—not a feather then he fluttered— till i scarcely more than muttered, “other friends have flown before— on the morrow he will leave me, as my hopes have flown before.” then the bird said, “nevermore.” in this excerpt, what is the speaker saying the raven will do? a. it will certainly die. b. it will leave immediately. c. it will leave the next day. d. it will befriend the speaker.

Which type of story uses animals as characters in order to illustrate a general truth about human nature?

Read the excerpt from the odyssey. then, throwing his arms around this marvel of a father telemachus began to weep. salt tears rose from the wells of longing in both men, and cries burst from both as keen and fluttering as those of the great taloned hawk, whose nestings farmers take before they fly this excerpt is an example of which value important to ancient greek society? hospitality generosity perseverance family ties