3. In the passage, what causes the conflict between the narrator and his friends?
O A The narrator secretly despises his friends for their
mean-spirited pranks, and he visits only to get the
better of them.
OB The friends' laughter causes the narrator to be
anxious, for he interprets it as a joke on his behalf.
O c The friends' exaggerated merriment and predilection
to prank the narrator make him paranoid when he
visits.
OD The narrator dislikes the lodgings given to him by his
friends.

the rhetoric device being used to persuade the audience is pathos.

the bundle of the sticks, talks about union and how sometimes people need a different point of view. when the father in this story asked his sons to break the bunch of sticks, they could not, but when they grabbed one stick each, it was easier for them to break, because they worked together.

in hofus the stonecutter shows a simple happy working man, but one day when he delivers a load of stone into the house of a rich man, he wishes to be a rich man as well and so the mountain spirit grants him that wish and many others, until he realizes that even getting all his desires and wishes come true, he just needed to be humble and have genuine reason to live and be a better man each day.