Occasionally a line of grey cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly creak and comes to rest, and immediately the ash-grey men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable cloud which screens their obscure operations from your sight. which statement best explains how symbolism is used in characterizing the valley of ashes? a. the railroad cars crawl along the track, which indicates an economic downturn. b. the men are covered in grey ash, highlighting their hopeless situation. c. the men work with leaden spades, working hard toward the american dream. d. the railroad track is invisible, representing the guidance of a divine spirit.

B. The men are covered in grey ash, highlighting their hopeless situation.

The statement that best explains how symbolism is used in characterizing the valley of ashes is B) The men were covered in grey ashes, highlighting their hopeless situation. In the Great Gatsby the Valley of Ashes is an area of barren wasteland in which asked and the waste of the rich is dumped upon. In the book Fitzgerald describes this area as a rather gray and dull place. Thus the men being covered in ashes symbolizes the hopeless situation these men were in being there.

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serve the people! ,” smoothly translated by julia lovell, offers an initial sample of yan lianke’s writing to an english-speaking audience. a bluntly drawn, mildly erotic fable, it teases mao zedong by poking fun at a true believer who obeys the chairman’s precepts too literally. to a western sensibility, the broad strokes of yan lianke’s humor would seem to pose little risk of inciting rebellion, whether of the flesh or of the body politic. but then, part of the book’s attraction is that it doesn’t have a western sensibility. it lets the reader see — or rather, intuit — what jokes chinese officials don’t consider funny, and how very little it takes for a writer to be branded an incendiary in 21st-century china, more than three decades after the death of mao, a decade after the death of deng xiaoping and seven years since china entered the world trade organization, a move that would seem to signal a willingness (however wary) to mingle with the rest of the world.

hot and dry

i need 20 things so this was just randomly added. hot and dry is the answer