Which statement best describes how the author of “A Widow’s Burden” has drawn an important fact from Lucy Stone’s speech to create a fictional story?

The speech is meant to persuade women, and the story problem encourages a woman to fight for her rights.

Explanation:

Lucy Stone was a distinguished women's rights activist.  She is famous for her "The Progress of Fifty Years" speech (1893), in which she focuses on inequality that women experience. However, she asserts that the situation has changed over the last fifty years, as women fight for their rights. In her speech, Stone wants to persuade women not to stop fighting.

Similarly, the story "A Widow's Burden" explores women's rights - rights of a widow upon her husband's death, in particular. Her stepson takes her property, farm, leaving very few items to her. Her parents support her in her fight for her rights, the same fight that Lucy Stone is talking about in her speech. Both the speech and the story, therefore, encourage women to fight for equality.

jefferson introduced the idea that one does not change a government for "light" causes because he wanted to emphasize the seriousness of colonists' reasons for declaring independence.

"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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