2. How does the setting of Scene 1 help you understand Della's problem? in the gift of the magi

The setting shows that Della has no money to buy what she wants.

Explanation:

In "The gift of the magi" we met Della who lives in a small and poorly furnished apartment. This setting shows us that Della is a simple person, who does not have a good economic condition, but that she is very hard working and that she is always trying to achieve a better condition. However, this lack of money helps us to understand Della's problem, since she really wants to give Jim a gift, but there is no way to pay for it.

answer: the essay describes the experience of the english narrator, possibly orwell himself, called upon to shoot an aggressive elephant while working as a police officer in burma.

explanation:

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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.