Which detail from the text best supports the answer to Part A? “That snake would pay for preying on helpless victims! The tabby sprang for the coiled serpent like a bolt of striped lightning!”

“The magician awoke with the snake’s dying hiss. He found the injured cat lying nearby and guessed what she had done.”

“He’d been traveling forever, it seemed. So when he spotted a tree with gnarled roots, he had to lie down among them to rest.”

“The snake recalled that this was the very man who had surprised it sometime earlier, just when the snake was about to dine on a tabby cat for breakfast.”

chapter i -- paris: september, 1792

a surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate.

during the greater part of the day the guillotine had been kept busy at its ghastly work: all that france had boasted of in the past centuries, of ancient names, and blue blood, had paid toll to her desire for liberty and for fraternity.

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answer: age of the protagonists.

dubliners is a collection of fifteen short stories by james joyce, published in 1914. they tell the stories of the irish middle class in and around dublin in the early years of the 20th century.

joyce divides the collection into three sections dealing with childhood, adolescence and maturity. therefore, one pattern he uses to organize his stories is the age of the protagonists. the initial stories deal with children, and as the stories continue, they focus on progressively older people.