Read the theme below and answer the question that follows. in life-threatening circumstances, the instinct to survive overcomes everything else. which supporting detail from night by elie wiesel reflects the above theme best? “dozens of inmates were there to receive us, sticks in hand, striking anywhere, anyone, without reason.” “never shall i forget those things, even were i condemned to live as long as god himself.” “a barrel of foul-smelling liquid stood by the door. disinfection. everybody soaked in it.” “our senses were numbed, everything was fading into a fog. we no longer clung to anything.”

What can you infer about gregor from this excerpt? a. he is ungrateful and refuses to eat all of the food that grete brings for him b. his appetite is good, which shows that his body is trying to return to human form c. he always eats trash, and grete is trying to get him to remember being human d. his eating habits are changing, and he is becoming physically less human

My cat and my dog like best friends

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.