What keeps pip from accepting herbert's job offer?

a. feeling that becoming a clerk is below his station

b. a reluctance to work for herbert

c. caring for magwitch during his illness and trial

d. his pride in being a gentleman

The gift of the magi analyze the various characters in the story. list which character types—dynamic, round, static, and flat—you observed in the story. cite evidence to support your response.

When i was young enough to still spend a long time buttoning my shoes in the morning, i'd listen toward the hall: daddy upstairs was shaving, in the bathroom, and mother downstairs was frying the bacon. they would begin whispering back and forth to each other up and down the stairwell. my father would whistle his phrase, my mother would try to whistle, then hum hers backi drew my buttonhook in and out and listened to it -know it was "the merry widow." the difference was, their song almost floated with laughter. how different from the record, which growled from the beginning, as if the victrola were only slowly being wound up. they kept it running between them, up and down the stairs where i was now just about ready to run clattering down and show them my shoes. what is the effect of the parallelism used in the above excerpt? it establishes the rhythm of a duet to echo the song. it expresses the same ideas. it mirrors opposite ideas. it is a paradox.

Which traits are strongest in your persuasive essay: ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, or conventions?