Read the excerpt below and answer the question.

for i am at my destination: another garden.
where the unpebbled walk awaits tomorrow's footprints.

in the above excerpt from the poem, the phrase "the unpebbled walk awaits tomorrow's footprints" refers to

a. memories of chang's home in china
b. chang's feeling of loss at leaving his childhood garden
c. chang's feelings about his new life
d. the difficulties chang experienced in america

The author attributes papa's unforgivable behavior to which of the following? a. the painful memories connected with his 9-month ordeal in south dakota b. papa's increasing addiction to alcohol c. papa's unfulfilled need to be in charge of something and/or someone d. mama's emotional distance from papa

Follow the direct characterization she was the kindest girl he had ever met she was the kindest girl he had ever met follow the direct characterization

Read this excerpt from "hope, despair, and memory" and answer the question. and yet it is surely human to forget, even to want to forget. the ancients saw it as a divine gift. indeed if memory us to survive, forgetting allows us to go on living. how could we go on with our daily lives, if we remained constantly aware of the dangers and ghosts surrounding us? the talmud tells us that without the ability to forget, man would soon cease to learn. without the ability to forget, man would live in a permanent, paralyzing fear of death. only god and god alone can and must remember everything. which of the following demonstrates one of the metaphors and its meaning in the above excerpt? forgetting = a divine gift forgetting = danger remembering = ability to learn remembering = a divine gift