Ihad the strangest dream last night. i was at the student union when i turned around to see jennifer lopez. i absolutely adore jlo. so, of course, i was in awe the next thing i know, there’s mark walhberg. i adore mark walhberg. i tried to tell the two of them how much i like their music and their movies they weren’t interested. they wanted to know my opinions on politics and social problems and all sorts of things. i seemed to have all the answers, they though i was pretty smart. then a guy i knew in high school came over to take our orders for smoothies. i looked again and saw it was dennis franz, a longtime favorite of mine as sipowicz on nypd blue i swear i am not making this up. this dream was really bizarre. i was the center of attention and loving every minute. it all seemed so real, you can imagine my disappointment when the alarm rang.

the narrator is a first person, participant one, who describes in the simple past tense important and difficult events in his earlier life. he also provides temporal markers as the month (january) and the time (12: 30 pm). finally the account of his experience is very detailed, to the extent that a participant narrator would talk the same way about his experiences. a good example of such detail is the mention of the “bovril ration” which historically was a native american food adopted by european explorers in arctic and antarctic regions due to its high level of calories.

the tale of “aunty misery” written by judith ortiz cofer , is a folk tale about an old woman who earns immortality by tricking death . the cost of immortality however, is that her life will stay the same. from this tale it becomes clear that death is a necessary evil and is inevitable in life.  

question: which theme is found in the tale of "aunty misery? ”

answer: a. death may not seem friendly, but he should be treated kindly.