Which of these lines from "anecdote of the jar" by wallace stevens best exemplifies how the jar impedes nature's ability to flourish?
a.) i placed a jar in tennessee,
and round it was, upon a hill.
b.) it made the slovenly wilderness
surround that hill.
c.)the wilderness rose up to it,
and sprawled around, no longer wild.
d.) the jar was round upon the ground
and tall and of a port in air.

Which statement best summarizes this excerpt from leo tolstoy's the death of ivan ilyich? and in imagination he began to recall the best moments of his pleasant life. but strange to say none of those best moments of his pleasant life now seemed at all what they had then seemed—none of them except the first recollections of childhood. there, in childhood, there had been something really pleasant with which it would be possible to live if it could return. but the child who had experienced that happiness existed no longer, it was like a reminiscence of somebody else.

Read this inference: "one day the neighbors will move out of the little frame house." what detail from the story best supports this inference?

What does the morality play everyman say about fate and free will? develop a short response using examples from the text to support your answer.