In "the gift of the magi," the gifts that the characters give each other are ironic because a the gifts are expensive and the characters should not have purchased them b it seems that each character is trying to buy a better gift than the other character c the characters were unable to buy what they really wanted their spouses to have, so the gifts they gave are the second choice gifts d the gifts are meant to be used with the other person’s most prized possession, which they sold in order to buy for each other

Read the excerpt from part 2 of zeitoun. zeitoun woke with the sun and crawled out of his tent. the day was bright, and as far as he could see in any direction the city was underwater. . he could only think of judgment day, of noah and forty days of rain. and yet it was so quiet, so still. nothing moved. he sat on the roof and scanned the horizon, looking for any person, any animal or machine moving. nothing. as he did his morning prayers, a helicopter broke the silence, shooting across the treetops and heading downtown. why does the author include the details of zeitoun’s morning? to suggest the hopelessness of zeitoun’s situation to illustrate the solitary existence endured by survivors to establish zeitoun’s dedication to the rituals of his faith to reveal the military’s attempts at assistance