What does the following passage mainly reveal about Tom (paragraph 1)? He got out his worldly wealth and examined it-bits of toys, marbles, and trash; enough to buy an exchange
of WORK, maybe, but not half enough to buy so much as half an hour of pure freedom. So he returned his
straitened means to his pocket, and gave up the idea of trying to buy the boys.
O He used to have many more treasures until other boys tricked him into giving them up.
O He is satisfied with the amount of treasures he currently has on him.
O He knows that he doesn't have enough to bribe the boys into whitewashing the fence,
O He would never figure out a way to get out of his work.
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At first i was afraid to approach him—then the fear left me. he was sitting looking out over the city—he was dressed in the clothes of the gods. his age was neither young nor old—i could not tell his age. but there was wisdom in his face and great sadness. you could see that he would have not run away. he had sat at his window, watching his city die—then he himself had died. but it is better to lose one's life than one's spirit—and you could see from the face that his spirit had not been lost. i knew, that, if i touched him, he would fall into dust—and yet, there was something unconquered in the face. how does the conflict at the beginning of the paragraph move the plot forward? the narrator realizes that he is scared of the gods. the narrator realizes that he distrusts the spirits the narrator realizes that the god was a man. the narrator realizes that he is powerful like the gods.