I need this fast! Story: Watson's go to Birmingham
Describe how characters in a novel are developed.
Describe the plot development and structure of a novel.
Describe and analyze the role of setting in a novel.
Identify and analyze the themes in a novel.
Identify and analyze an author’s purpose and perspective.
Explain how historical context affects readers’ understanding and appreciation of a novel.

1.creeping like a snail is a simile used in this poem and it means the child is going to school unwillingly./a child is unwilling to go to school.

2. man becomes very frail and loses his physical strength when he becomes old, so much that his leggings that used to fit him snugly when he was in his youth are now too loose for him to wear, and that his shank has shrunk so much that this worldly stage is too big for a feeble actor like him. although, 'his youthful hose' just refers to his leggings/pants/ to shrink from danger; to shrink from contact.

3.the words "sans" means "without." it is a french word that is often used in english even today. so he is saying that in the last age of a man, the man is without eyes, taste, or anything else. he also says that this is the "last stage of all" and that it is the stage that ends a man's "history."

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the answer should be:

the intervention of the supernatural gives gilgamesh hope that he will defeat humbaba.

c. there are many strengths