1) Read this excerpt from a short story. Highlight the main characters in yellow Highlight the setting in blue. Highlight the conflict that drives the plot in orange
What themes hinted at?
Lori sat on the front stoop of her new home in Wolridge,
She missed Brooklyn. As she wiped away a tear, a boy
biked up to her. "Hey! I'm lostin— live up the street," he
said. "I just wanted to say hi. Do you want to go fishing?"
Lori almost laughed in his smiling face. "Fishing? Are you
joking?" Justin looked upset. Lori then realized no one had
ever been this nice to her before, and a total stranger was
inviting her to do something—she should let go off the
past. "Sorry," she apologized, "I never had a chance to fish
in the city, you know? I'd like to try,"

Read the following excerpt from "dark tower" by claude mckay before you choose your answer. "we shall not always plant while others reap the golden increment of bursting fruit, nor always countenance, abject and mute, that lesser men should hold their brothers cheap; not everlastingly while others sleep shall we beguile their limbs with mellow flute, not always bend to some more subtle brute. we were not made eternally to weep. the night, whose sable breast relieves the stark, white stars, is no less lovely being dark; and there are buds that cannot bloom at all in light, but crumple, piteous, and fall. so in the dark we hid the heart that bleeds, and wait, and tend our agonizing needs." in context, the expression "the night, whose sable breast relieves the stark,/ white stars, is no less lovely being dark; " is best interpreted as a. the light of the stars overpowers the black of night b. the black of night overpowers the light of the stars c. black and white contribute equally to the beauty of the night sky d. black and white continuously compete for prominence in the night sky