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read the excerpt from "song of myself" by walt whitman and complete the sentence that follows.

what has become of the young and old men?
and what has become of the women and children?

they are alive and well somewhere,
the smallest sprout shows there is really no death,
and if ever there was it led forward life, and does not wait at the end to arrest it,
and ceas'd the moment life appear'd.

all goes onward and outward, nothing collapses,
and to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.

in the excerpt walt whitman that because .

Assuming the drop-down menu contained the following choices:

A. human beings continue to exist after death in the form of souls

B. no remnant of human life can exist after death

C. human beings continue to exist after death through the people they knew

D. some remnant of human life continues to exist after death

E. the human soul is unchangeable and immortal

F. the remains of the dead are absorbed into the soil and continue to nourish life

G. the soul and consciousness continue to exist in other living beings

H. the human soul is not immortal in any way

The answer is: "Walt Whitman suggests that some remnant of human life continues to exist after death (D) because the remains of the dead are absorbed into the soil and continue to nourish life (F)."

In this section of the poem, Whitman explains that the whole land and its people are connected even after death, because death is only a passage from one form to another: "there is really no death, / And if ever there was it led forward life."

Earlier in "Song of Myself," he mentions the grass which grows on top of the dead's graves; while in this passage, he declares very clearly that people continue to live in the grass: "They are alive and well somewhere," in "the smallest sprouts."

"the monkey's paw" is a rare story in that the theme is actually stated in the story. sgt. maj. morris tells the whites that the old fakir who put the spell on the paw said, "fate rules people's lives and those who interfere with fate do so to their sorrow." the message is a warning, but mr. white doesn't believe it. even though sgt. maj. morris makes it clear that he tried wishing with unfortunate results and he tries to throw the paw on the fire,   mr. white makes a wish for 200 pounds only to find that he receives the money when herbert dies in a factory accident. according to the fakir, then, because mr. white had wished for something he should not have had, his son lost his life.

the second wish that mrs. white encourages him to make is for herbert's return--one week after his death. when the strange knocking begins at the door during the windy night, mr. white panicks, believing that the previously dead but still mangled herbert could have walked home from the cemetary and is now at the door. because he fears what his wife will find if she opens the door, mr. white makes his third wish--for the noise to stop.

therefore, he uses his three wishes and to his sorrow, loses his son and disappoints his wife, who fervently believed that their son was at the door. she wanted him back, regardless of his condition.

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