What would you say to try to persuade someone to order a pizza for you?

Does anyone read this story in 9th grade "when mr. pirzada came to dine"

Select the correct answer from each drop-down menu. read the following excerpt from the novel "oliver twist" by charles dickens. although oliver had been brought up by philosophers, he was not theoretically acquainted with the beautiful axiom that self-preservation is the first law of nature. if he had been, perhaps he would have been prepared for this. not being prepared, however, it alarmed him the more; so away he went

Nthis poem by ruskin bond, what does the use of the word heart-beats suggest about the narrator's attitude toward life?