Read the excerpt from the land, part 1. i loved my daddy. i loved my brothers too. but in the end it was mitchell thomas and i who were most like brothers, with a bond that couldn't be broken. the two of us came into mississippi together by way of east texas, and that was when we were still boys, long after we had come to our understanding of each other. seeing that we were a long way from our georgia home and both of us being strangers here in mississippi, the two of us depended on each other and became as family. but it wasn't always that way. based on this excerpt, which is a reasonable assumption about mitchell and paul’s relationship? they were close friends from the moment they met. they pretended to be friends, but don’t like each other. they had significant conflict before they became friends. they only became friends because they were both lonely.

Which sentence in this excerpt from leo tolstoy’s the death of ivan ilyich shows the human tendency to contemplate one’s past life? "but if that is so," he said to himself, "and i am leaving this life with the consciousness that i have lost all that was given me and it is impossible to rectify it—what then? " he lay on his back and began to pass his life in review in quite a new way. in the morning when he saw first his footman, then his wife, then his daughter, and then the doctor, their every word and movement confirmed to him the awful truth that had been revealed to him during the night. in them he saw himself—all that for which he had lived—and saw clearly that it was not real at all, but a terrible and huge deception which had hidden both life and death. this consciousness intensified his physical suffering tenfold. he groaned and tossed about, and pulled at his clothing which choked and stifled him. and he hated them on that account. he was given a large dose of opium and became unconscious, but at noon his sufferings began again. he drove everybody away and tossed from side to side. his wife came to him and said: "jean, my dear, do this for me. it can't do any harm and often . healthy people often do it." he opened his eyes wide. "what? take communion? why? it's unnecessary! " she began to cry. "yes, do, my dear. i'll send for our priest. he is such a nice man." "all right. very well," he muttered. when the priest came and heard his confession, ivan ilyich was softened and seemed to feel a relief from his doubts and consequently from his sufferings, and for a moment there came a ray of hope. he again began to think of the vermiform appendix and the possibility of correcting it. he received the sacrament with tears in his eyes.