Ming's mother fell asleep on the couch right after dinner. Ming didn't blame her - she worked long hours. She had an important job at a big company that Ming didn't really understand. She was always on the phone with clients. As Ming watched television beside her sleeping mother, a phone rang in the show she was watching. "Hello?" Ming's mother mumbled, then drifted off again. Which statement best expresses a theme of this story?

A. A stressful job can affect all areas of your life.

B. Being tired is no excuse not to connect with one's family.

C. Sympathy for others' difficult situations shows good character.

D. It is important to understand what others do all day.

Which two lines in this sonnet use symbolism to describe old age? sonnet 2 by william shakespeare when forty winters shall besiege thy brow, and dig deep trenches in thy beauty's field, thy youth's proud livery so gazed on now, will be a totter'd weed of small worth held: then being asked, where all thy beauty lies, where all the treasure of thy lusty days; to say, within thine own deep sunken eyes, were an all-eating shame, and thriftless praise. how much more praise deserv'd thy beauty's use, if thou couldst answer 'this fair child of mine shall sum my count, and make my old excuse,' proving his beauty by succession thine! this were to be new made when thou art old, and see thy blood warm when thou feel'st it cold.