What evidence from "The Storyteller" supports the theme that pride goes before a fall? Select two options. "It's a very difficult thing to tell stories that children can both understand and appreciate,' she said stiffly."
"Once upon a time,' began the bachelor, there was a little girl called Bertha, who was extraordinarily good.'
"The children's momentarily-aroused interest began at once to flicker, all stories seemed dreadfully alike, no matter
who told them."
"Was she pretty?' asked the bigger of the small girls.
"Not as pretty as any of you,' said the bachelor, 'but she was horribly good.'
"There was a wave of reaction in favour of the story: the word horrible in connection with goodness was a novelty
that commended itself. It seemed to introduce a ring of truth that was absent from the aunt's tales of infant life."
"Why weren't there any flowers?'
"Because the pigs had eaten them all,' said the bachelor promptly. The gardeners had told the Prince that you
couldn't have pigs and flowers, so he decided to have pigs and no flowers."
"Unhappy woman!' he observed to himself as he walked down the platform of Templecombe station for the next
six months or so those children will assail her in public with demands for an improper story!"

she learned to understand that physical beauty wasn’t as important as being a good person.

in the short story the slip-over sweater by jesse stuart, the main character and narrator shan is friends with grace, an intelligent girl he has known since childhood and with whom he used to be in love.

at the beginning of the story, shan believes he’s no longer in love with grace, but loves jo-anne instead. in order to buy a slip-over sweater and have jo-anne wear it so that the other students would know she loved him too, shan takes a loan at the bank.

while jo-anne is wearing shan’s sweater, his friend grace starts to wear another popular boy’s one, roy’s sweater. because of that, the other students begin to pay attention to grace and compliment her perseverance and effort. they admire her for walking 5 miles to school every day, despite the weather, and still getting the best grades. shan, who knows all of that for a fact, says, as the narrator, ‘and i knew she had the durability and the toughness of a storm-battered mountain oak.’ he compares his friend’s strength – not only physical, but also of character – to an oak tree, whose wood is known for being sturdy.

as the story goes on, shan changes his behavior out of concern for the debt he has to pay at the bank. his new girlfriend jo-anne never asks him what is wrong nor offers any sort of . instead, she breaks up with shan for not being as fun as she thought he was supposed to be. grace, however, not only asks about shan’s problem, but him make the money he needs. shan can’t but notice how different the girls are and what a wonderful person grace is.   even though he used to find jo-anne prettier at the beginning of the story, he now says, ‘grace was as beautiful as our mountain was in april, prettier than a blossom of wild phlox or a mountain daisy.’ his comparing grace to a mountain or something that exists on a mountain (such as a mountain oak or daisy) certainly has important meaning since shan loves the mountain and everything about it and he knows the mountain thoroughly. shan also loves and knows grace as completely as he does the mountain.

whatever is after like is what is being compared they are comparing bumping into you like they are scared to catch germs you have and to you being contagious