Which three parts of this excerpt from nathaniel hawthorne’s novel “the house of seven gables” provide direct characterization? he was ready to encounter an evil spirit endowed with common sense as massive and hard as blocks of granite fastened togethercby stern rigidity of purpose he followed out his original design on the score of delicacy of any scrupulousness which a finer sensibility might have taught him the colonel like most of his breed and generation was impenetrable he therefore dug is cellar and laid the deep foundations of his mansion whence mather maule forty years before had first swept away the fallen leaves

Asap! : ( 20 points! cite textual evidence to support this analysis of the connection. a; he says that he chooses "to believe that there are insufficient finds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation," so it shows that he has given up hope. b; he states, "so we've come to cash this check, a check that will give us upon demand the riches" of the nation for everyone. this proves that he wants government money to be equally shared. c; mlk explains that america should give african americans "a bad check, a check that has come back marked 'insufficient funds.'" d; he mentions that america wrote a bad check from freedom to african americans, but he states that he "refuses to belive that the bank of justice is bankrupt." he also states, "we've come to cash this or freedom and security of justice."

Which type of conflict does della face in o. henry’s “the gift of the magi”? a. character versus society b. character versus machine c. character versus character d. character versus nature

Nthis poem by ruskin bond, what does the use of the word heart-beats suggest about the narrator's attitude toward life?