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refer to the mary celeste: an unsolved mystery from history for a complete version of this text.
part a
which statement is a main idea of the mary celeste: an unsolved mystery from history?
the captain of the mary celeste came from a family of sailors and grew up with four brothers.
newspapers reported on the story of the mary celeste, but many of their stories were greatly exaggerated.
one theory about the fate of the people on board the mary celeste is that they were eaten by something living in the ocean.
the captain and crew of the dei gratia put a lot of work into salvaging the mary celeste, but received little reward.
question 2
part b
which detail from the text best supports the answer to part a?
“they actually got only a fifth, and out of it had to pay all court costs.”
“he was born in wareham, massachusetts, in 1835, the second of five sons of captain nathan briggs, all of whom but one became sailors.”
“a hundred years ago, there were still people who believed that a sea monster—like a kraken or giant octopus—had somehow devoured the crew.”
“readers thrilled to these stories, but some were half-truths and some were downright lies.”

arah orne jewett first published "a white heron" in her 1886 collection, "a white heron and other stories." this short story tells the tale of what happens when sylvia, a 9-year-old girl living deep in the forest with her grandmother, meets a young hunter looking to capture, and kill, the white heron living in sylvia's woods. the climax occurs when sylvia must decide whether to him or protect the bird.

rising action

leading up to the climax of the story, the nameless young hunter befriends sylvia and her grandmother, mrs. tilly. he explains to mrs. tilly that he is bent on "stuffing and preserving" a little white heron that he believes lives near their cottage. mrs. tilly offers up that "[t]here ain't a foot o' ground" that sylvia doesn't know and suggests that she may be able to him find the bird.

climax

after following, but not really , the young hunter on his search for the heron, sylvia slips out of bed alone in the middle of the night to find the heron for herself. perched at the top of a gigantic pine tree, sylvia spots the heron, and its nest, in a dead hemlock tree across the way. the following morning she returns home to find her grandmother and the hunter waiting for her at the door. in the moment when she plans to tell the hunter where to find the heron, she suddenly decides to protect the heron and remain silent; even the promise of much needed money does not sway her.

explanation:

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