Read the following paragraph and answer the question that follows:

if that voice sounds true, don't me. that great horned owl. (or perhaps it was not an owl after all? ) and the children, my own and others, who have never forgotten that a good story can be true. for they understand that the power of imagination is truly the power of creation.

which of the following thoughts is expressed explicitly in the paragraph?

imagination makes a story real

a fictional story can be real

imagination is the power behind creation

many people remember good stories

*will give branliest*

Nature is a recurring theme in early american literature. what view of nature does phillis wheatley provide in "an hymn to the evening"

At first i was afraid to approach him—then the fear left me. he was sitting looking out over the city—he was dressed in the clothes of the gods. his age was neither young nor old—i could not tell his age. but there was wisdom in his face and great sadness. you could see that he would have not run away. he had sat at his window, watching his city die—then he himself had died. but it is better to lose one's life than one's spirit—and you could see from the face that his spirit had not been lost. i knew, that, if i touched him, he would fall into dust—and yet, there was something unconquered in the face. how does the conflict at the beginning of the paragraph move the plot forward? the narrator realizes that he is scared of the gods. the narrator realizes that he distrusts the spirits the narrator realizes that the god was a man. the narrator realizes that he is powerful like the gods.

Once soueif's and her nieces join the protest, there is a distinct shift in the tone.