Passage - The Choice After reading the excerpt from "The Choice," answer the question below. Use the rubric in the materials for help if needed.
The author of this passage uses a both a flashback and a flash-forward to give readers more information. Locate the flashback in this reading. What do readers learn from the
flashback? How does the flashback affect the outcome of the story? Use details to support your answer.

the answer is a)   a sentence of death costs the state "almost three times as much as a sentence of life in prison" (delon 147)

boccaccio employs the voice of his narrator dioneo to represent his ideas on the tension between masculinity and femininity.  while dioneo excites the members of the brigata and recognizes women for their unique skills and independent ideas, he concludes the decameron with a story reminiscent of the society from which these young aristocrats escaped, revealing misogynistic overtones.  dioneo boccaccio is able to explore the gender disparity which is inherent in 14th century florentine society.

attitude toward the subject implied in a literary work.

serious at times, angry, impassioned, and optimistic, but most of all urgent