Read the excerpt from a short story. the sonoran desert route was his favorite. his friends were surprised he could endure the solitude of it, but he cherished the barren miles. today he’d passed a mile of verbena in full bloom, followed by ten miles with nothing but sagebrush. the next leg promised cliffs, and he loved to imagine scaling them as he traversed the desolate highway. in fact, one was rising in the distance, and the highway would bear right around it. he looked down to cool the temperature, looked up again, and stared. the grill of a tractor trailer, in his lane, was bearing down upon him. how does the excerpt exemplify the ideas king describes in "danse macabre"?
a. it allows readers to approach a "forbidden door."
b. it provides a "single powerful spectacle" for the imagination’s eye.
c. it forces readers to "grapple" with their own mortality.
d. it introduces an unlikely "dancing partner."

C. It forces readers to "grapple" with their own mortality.

Explanation:

In the excerpt, the narrator indicates how the protagonist of this story is traveling in his favorite route across the desert and showing a lot of enthusiasm about some cliffs he was expecting to see when suddenly, in a matter of seconds, a truck is just a few feet away from him. The reader here gets the idea that he has suffered a car accident and never got to see the cliffs. And this explains how fragile life is and how people have to "grapple" with their mortality.  

animal farm, written by george orwell, is a representation of russia after the revolution that led stalin to take over power.

in this excerpt, the central idea seems to be that the animals (a representation of society), when they believe to be working for a greater good and equality, are obedient and productive. they were convinced that, after expelling the owner (jones) from the farm, they would live in harmony and be fairly treated.

as we know, the pigs become the leaders and grow more selfish and dictatorial with time. in the end, they look and act in a way so similar to humans that it is impossible to tell the difference. the ideals of equality are shattered, and the farm turns out to be worse than it was before. the animals are manipulated with false propaganda and forced to work in order to enrich the pigs.

- "when these words are put together to convey a meaning it is known as a sentence. a sentence is a group of words that makes complete sense. placing of words in a sentence is very important. the second sentence is a question."