24) Which specific details from the text shape and refine the theme? A)
The gods make puppets out of people so that their
bidding can be done by others without the gods"
involvement
B)
Ulysses is described as a wanderer who cannot find
comfort anywhere, as he is continually persecuted by
the gods.
As the captain of his own ship, Ulysses should have
been able to save his men from death or chosen to
die with them.
D)
The gods are unjust in their choice to continue
persecuting innocent people and keeping them from
settling down at home.

When i was young enough to still spend a long time buttoning my shoes in the morning, i'd listen toward the hall: daddy upstairs was shaving, in the bathroom, and mother downstairs was frying the bacon. they would begin whispering back and forth to each other up and down the stairwell. my father would whistle his phrase, my mother would try to whistle, then hum hers backi drew my buttonhook in and out and listened to it -know it was "the merry widow." the difference was, their song almost floated with laughter. how different from the record, which growled from the beginning, as if the victrola were only slowly being wound up. they kept it running between them, up and down the stairs where i was now just about ready to run clattering down and show them my shoes. what is the effect of the parallelism used in the above excerpt? it establishes the rhythm of a duet to echo the song. it expresses the same ideas. it mirrors opposite ideas. it is a paradox.

Which best explains the role that the theme of freedom plays in this excerpt

What does the excerpt tell about the narratos mental shift i suppose i shall have to get back behind the pattern when it comes night,and that is hard? @a.the narraor believes that the wallpaper is beatiful b.he believes that the woman in the wallpaper will attack him when he sleeps c.the narrator believes that he cant escape from the windws with the bars d.that the narrator was once behind the wallpaper