BARACK OBAMA "It was a pleasure to burn. It was a special pleasure to see
things eaten, to see things blackened and changed. With the
brass nozzle in his fists, with this great python spitting its
venomous kerosene upon the world, the blood pounded in his
head, and his hands were the hands of some amazing
conductor playing all the symphonies of blazing and burning to
bring down the tatters and charcoal ruins of history. With his
symbolic helmet numbered 451 on his stolid head, and his
eyes all orange flame with the thought of what came next, he
flicked the igniter and the house jumped up in a gorging fire
that burned the evening sky red and yellow and black. He
strode in a swarm of fireflies. He wanted above all, like the old
joke, to shove a marshmallow on a stick in the furnace, while
the flapping pigeon-winged books died on the porch and lawn
of the house. While the books went up in sparkling whirls and
blew away on a wind turned dark with burning. Montag grinned
the fierce grin of all men singed and driven back by flame."
RAY
BRADBURY
FAHRENHEIT
451

Which sentence in this excerpt from leo tolstoy’s the death of ivan ilyich suggests that ivan ilyich aspired to be part of the elite in society from a young age? a.ivan ilyich was  le phenix de la famille  as people said.  he was neither as cold and formal as his elder brother nor as wild as the younger, but was a happy mean between them—an intelligent polished, lively and agreeable man.b.  even when he was at the school of law he was just what he remained for the rest of his life:   a capable, cheerful, good-natured, and sociable man, though strict in the fulfillment of what he considered to be his duty:   and he considered his duty to be what was so considered by those in authority.c.neither as a boy nor as a man was he a toady, but from early youth was by nature attracted to people of high station as a fly is drawn to the light, assimilating their ways and views of life and establishing friendly relations with them.d.all the enthusiasms of childhood and youth passed without leaving much trace on him; he succumbed to sensuality, to vanity, and latterly among the highest classes to liberalism, but always within limits which his instinct unfailingly indicated to him as correct.e.at school he had done things which had formerly seemed to him very horrid and made him feel disgusted with himself when he did them;