This is in the book "endangered"by eliot schrefer

At first i was afraid to approach him—then the fear left me. he was sitting looking out over the city—he was dressed in the clothes of the gods. his age was neither young nor old—i could not tell his age. but there was wisdom in his face and great sadness. you could see that he would have not run away. he had sat at his window, watching his city die—then he himself had died. but it is better to lose one's life than one's spirit—and you could see from the face that his spirit had not been lost. i knew, that, if i touched him, he would fall into dust—and yet, there was something unconquered in the face. how does the conflict at the beginning of the paragraph move the plot forward? the narrator realizes that he is scared of the gods. the narrator realizes that he distrusts the spirits the narrator realizes that the god was a man. the narrator realizes that he is powerful like the gods.

What does "walking the desert in search of canaan"?

Read this excerpt from the legend in chicago it is snowing softly and a man has just done his wash for the week. he steps into the twilight of early evening carrying a wrinkled shopping bag full of neatly folded clothes based on the contrast between the man wrinkled shopping bags and his nearly folded clothes readers can best conclude that the man