Refer to Explorations in Literature for a complete version of this narrative (there are boxes) Which details from "The Oasis: Africa" best support the central idea that nature can be severe and unkind? Select each correct answer. “A well-struck blow and the water-skin would be theirs.” "Misery of hunger, torture of thirst; unending discomfort of swarming lice." "In a short time we were on the fringe of one of the most delicious spots I have ever seen." "For eight weary days we had crawled across the burning desert.

Iam told that hundreds if not thousands of these (armenians) were sent at once to the front ranks at the dardanelles, where death in a very short space of time is almost a certainty. the older men were then deported into the interior, while the women and children, when not carried off in an opposite direction, were left to shift for themselves as best they could. the terrible feature of this deportation up to date is that it has been carried out on such a basis as to render it practically impossible in thousands of cases that these families can ever again be reunited. not only wives and husbands, brothers and sisters, but even mothers and their little children have been dispersed in such a manner as to preclude practically all hope that they will ever see each other again. according to this excerpt, what does the author consider to be the worst part of the deportation during the armenian genocide?