Choose only one of the following statements or scripts and analyze the literal and connotative meaning in less than 5 lines. - When they kill, they kill without mercy, but without hate. They are immune from the curse of pity. They never gloat. "My Life as a Bat"

- So much held in a heart in a lifetime. So much held in a heart in a day, an hour, a moment. We are utterly open with no one, in the end—not mother and father, not wife or husband, not lover, not child, not friend. We open windows to each but we live alone in the house of the heart. " Joyas Voladoras"

-“It just barely missed me, but in my place, it swallowed everything that mattered most to me and swept it off to another world. I took years to find it again to recover from the experience—precious years that can never be replaced.” "The Seventh Man"

-K. was always there, lying in the wave tip, grinning at me, his hand outstretched, beckoning. I couldn’t get that picture out of my mind. And when I managed to sleep, it was there in my dreams— "The Seventh Man"

-I had a sense, whenever I looked at one of K.’s works, that something was permeating my very flesh. "The Seventh Man"