They were gray as old ashes; faceless, eyeless. They
spread the surface of the water with pure green flame. I
knew - I seemed to have known all along - that the
snakes were there to guard something. Inevitably, after I'd
stood there a while, rolling my eyes back along the dark
hallway, my ears cocked for my mother's step, I screwed
my nerve up and dove (16).
Which phrase from this excerpt most clearly evokes empathy for Grendel?
O
A. pure green flame
O
B. the dark hallway
C. screwed up my nerve
O
D. faceless, eyeless

screwed up nerve

Explanation:

Pure green flame has nothing to do with empathy niether dies the hallway or faceless

Screwed up nerve makes kind if an understanding of what grendel went through

i have read the novel roll of thunder hear my cry by mildred d. taylor.

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2.   one character that changed during the novel was stacey. stacey is the eldest child of the black logan family. around the begging of the novel stacey was avoiding the white boy jeremy simms. he had a dislike for jeremy's family. but at the end of the novel stacey began to like jeremy.

3. the author starts the novel with the problem that the children of the logan family have to avoid the white kid school bus while walking to school.