Edgar Lee Masters' Spoon River Anthology is an attempt to convey the joys, frustrations, and ironies of life in an American small tow years ago. In Masters' characterizations of businessmen, however, the literature is not realistic, and therefore fails. The merchants are desc
shallow, grasping, and insensitive.
What is the author's underlying belief about literature?
1. Businessmen are not interesting as literary characters.
2. Masters' books can't be considered "literature."
3. Literature describes historical events.
4. Literature should portray reality.

Stone, two or three feet thick, the door of wood and iron, a foot thick, and the iron grating which strained the light, i could not being struck with the foolishness of that institution which treated me as if i were mere flesh and blood and bones, to be locked up. i wondered that it should have concluded at length that this was the best use it could put me to, and had never thought to avail itself of my services in some way. i saw that, if there was a wall of stone between me and my townsmen, there was a still more difficult one to climb or break through before they could get to be as free as i was. i did not for a moment feel confined, and the walls seemed a great waste of stone and mortar. i felt as if i alone of all my townsmen had paid my tax. — “civil disobedience,” henry david thoreau based on this passage, how did thoreau feel about his confinement?

Which statement best explains why shakespeare has cassius use the word fawn rather than a synonym such as flatter to describe his actions?

Does any one read this story "when mr. came to dine". in 9th grade. plz i need with one question about this story?