Which of the following stories would most likely include the theme "noble sacrifice"? a. a military officer spends years pursuing an escaped criminal, who continually slips through his grasp. b. the only survivor of a shipwreck must overcome several obstacles in his efforts to return home. c. a woman sells her beautiful hair to buy her husband a gold watch chain for the holidays. d. a few students conspire to play a prank on their teacher, but their plan goes terribly wrong.

The correct answer is C. A woman sells her beautiful hair to buy her husband a gold watch chain for the holidays.

Explanation:

In stories and other forms of literature, the theme refers to the belief about life or the idea the author of the story develops through the character's actions, thoughts, values, the plot, and other elements. This implies if a story includes the theme "noble sacrifice" the story should include one character or different characters that through their actions show they kindly sacrificed for other or the importance of sacrificing for others and therefore, the story that would include this theme is "A woman sells her beautiful hair to buy her husband a gold watch chain for the holidays", because this is the only story in which one of the characters gives up something or sacrifices for others as the women renounces to her hair to buy the watch to her husband.

answer: to inform

explanation: the red death is an exciting passage, but also in some ways scary, so it is not to amuse. the red death is far in the past, so it is not to warn.

now, of course, the quality and the seasonability of these winter dreams varied, but the stuff of them remained.   they persuaded dexter several years later to pass up a business course at the state university—his father, prospering now, would have paid his way—for the precarious advantage of attending an older and more famous university in the east, where he was bothered by his scanty funds. but do not get the impression, because his winter dreams happened to be concerned at first with musings on the rich, that there was anything merely snobbish in the boy. he wanted not association with glittering things and glittering people—he wanted the glittering things themselves. often he reached out for the best without knowing why he wanted it—and sometimes he ran up against the mysterious denials and prohibitions in which life indulges.

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