How do the structures of "the secret life of walter mitty" and "to build a fire" differ?
a. "the secret life of walter mitty" tells the story in chronological order, but "to build a fire" is told using flashbacks of the man's life.
b. "the secret life of walter mitty" uses dialogue among the characters to propel the action, but "to build a fire tells the story through the detailed description of one important scene.
c. "the secret life of walter mitty" relates a specific event in a man's life, but "to build a fire" covers a series of events that occur over time,
d. "the secret life of walter mitty" compares the imaginings of a man's life with his reality, but "to build a fire" tells the dramatic tale of a man's fight for survival, using conflict and resolution.

the answer is D.

"The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" compares the imaginings of a man's life with his reality, but "To Build a Fire" tells the dramatic tale of a man's fight for survival, using conflict and resolution.

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serve the people! ,” smoothly translated by julia lovell, offers an initial sample of yan lianke’s writing to an english-speaking audience. a bluntly drawn, mildly erotic fable, it teases mao zedong by poking fun at a true believer who obeys the chairman’s precepts too literally. to a western sensibility, the broad strokes of yan lianke’s humor would seem to pose little risk of inciting rebellion, whether of the flesh or of the body politic. but then, part of the book’s attraction is that it doesn’t have a western sensibility. it lets the reader see — or rather, intuit — what jokes chinese officials don’t consider funny, and how very little it takes for a writer to be branded an incendiary in 21st-century china, more than three decades after the death of mao, a decade after the death of deng xiaoping and seven years since china entered the world trade organization, a move that would seem to signal a willingness (however wary) to mingle with the rest of the world.

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