Excerpt from "the dream comes true" by tenzing norgay for it is the plain truth that no one pulled or hauled me up the gap. i climbed it myself, just as hillary had done; and if he was protecting me with the rope while i was doing it, this was no more than i had done for him. in speaking of this i must make one thing very plain. hillary is my friend. he is a fine climber and a fine man, and i am proud to have gone with him to the top of everest. but i do feel that in his story of our final climb he is not quite fair to me; that all the way through he indicates that when things went well it was his doing and when things went badly it was mine. for this is simply not true. nowhere do i make the suggestion that i could have climbed everest by myself; and i do not think hillary should suggest that he could have, or that i could not have done it without his . all the way up and down we , and were by, each other—and that was the way it should be. but we were not leader and led. we were partners. which statement best describes the author's viewpoint of hillary in this excerpt? a) he sees hillary as a liar and cheat who is trying to destroy his reputation; this account is meant to set the record straight. b) he views hillary as a superior climber and a national hero who is worthy of every respect and everyone’s admiration. c) he feels that he and hillary were equals and that they could not have climbed everest without each other’s . d) he sees hillary as a weak man who is trying to fool the public with exaggerated stories of his climbing accomplishments.

c)  He feels that he and Hillary were equals and that they could not have climbed Everest without each other's help.

In the excerpt, the author argues that Hillary is a fine man and his friend, and he is not offensive to him at any point. So it would be inaccurate to claim that he refers to him as a liar and a cheat.

He also makes it clear that he does not think Hillary is "superior" to him, or that he is weak. The only accurate thing is to say that they were both equals, and they helped each other out, but that he believes Hillary does not portray him that way in his account.

english novelist and poet, the eldest of the three brontë sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels became classics of english literature.

she enlisted in school at roe head in january 1831, aged 14 years. she left the year after to teach her sisters, emily and anne, at home, returning in 1835 as a governess. in 1839 she undertook the role as governess for the sidgwick family, but left after a few months to return to haworth where the sisters opened a school, but failed to attract pupils. instead they turned to writing and they each first published in 1846 under the pseudonyms of currer, ellis and acton bell. her first novel the professor was rejected by publishers, her second novel jane eyre was published in 1847. the sisters admitted to their bell pseudonyms in 1848, and by the following year were celebrated in london literary circles.

brontë experienced the early deaths of all her siblings. she became pregnant shortly after her marriage in june 1854 but died on 31 march 1855, almost certainly from hyperemesis gravidarum, a complication of pregnancy which causes excessive nausea and vomiting.

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